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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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
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
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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