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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 a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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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Choice Moments Story
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

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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