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

Graham Greene

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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
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

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

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