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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Graham Greene

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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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