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

Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
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
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

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

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