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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
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
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
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect

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