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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

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
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim

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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