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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.

Graham Greene

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.

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