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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

Graham Greene

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

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