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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.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom

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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