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

Graham Greene

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
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
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
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever 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
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics

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