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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

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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 the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself

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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