Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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.
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