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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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
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
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

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