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

Graham Greene

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
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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible

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

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