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When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

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
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
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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