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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

It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
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 had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain

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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