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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

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
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
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

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

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