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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Graham Greene

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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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 a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

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