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

Graham Greene

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
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
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
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
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save

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