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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Graham Greene

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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