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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Graham Greene

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
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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
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
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity

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