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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.

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
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return 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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention

There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.

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