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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Graham Greene

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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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence 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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

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