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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

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