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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Graham Greene

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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 a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself

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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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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