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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Graham Greene

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
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

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