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

Graham Greene

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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
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

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