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

Graham Greene

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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

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

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