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

Graham Greene

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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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

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