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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

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