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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Graham Greene

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
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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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain

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