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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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 a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics

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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