It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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