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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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

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