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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Graham Greene

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’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
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
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

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