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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

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth

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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