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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Graham Greene

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention

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