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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning 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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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