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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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