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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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 always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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