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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Graham Greene

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
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

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