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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.

Graham Greene

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End

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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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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