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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

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
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

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