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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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 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

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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