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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

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention

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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