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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Graham Greene

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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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