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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.

Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
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
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

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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