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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.

Graham Greene

It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
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
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
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 human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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

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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