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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.

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
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself

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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