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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

Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity

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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