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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Graham Greene

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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature

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