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

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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
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
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike

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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