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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Graham Greene

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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing

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