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Graham Greene

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
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 one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself

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