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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

Graham Greene

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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

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