In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENEShe mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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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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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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