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

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
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
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth

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