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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

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
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
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time

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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