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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Graham Greene

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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 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
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

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