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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

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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

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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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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