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

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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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself

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

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