In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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