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As long as one suffers one lives.

Graham Greene

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly

As long as one suffers one lives.

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