She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Graham Greene

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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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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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Choice Moments Story
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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

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