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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Graham Greene

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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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

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