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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Graham Greene

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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

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