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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective

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