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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
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
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
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

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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