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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

Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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.
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Live Oneself Suffering
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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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