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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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

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