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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering

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