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

Graham Greene

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 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
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
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’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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing

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