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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.

Graham Greene

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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 say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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

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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