Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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