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When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
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
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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