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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.

Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

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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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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