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

Graham Greene

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

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