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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

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
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
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
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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

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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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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