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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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
Champagne, 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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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
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
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

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