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

Graham Greene

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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

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

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