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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.

Graham Greene

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
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
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue

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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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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