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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
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
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
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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

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