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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
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
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
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
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth

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