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Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Graham Greene

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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate 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
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
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
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
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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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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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