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.
GRAHAM GREENESweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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