There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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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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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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