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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Graham Greene

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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth

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