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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Graham Greene

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
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
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 a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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
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
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
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

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