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

Graham Greene

Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible

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

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