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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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
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
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
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
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
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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