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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End

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