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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.

Graham Greene

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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love

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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