In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEWould the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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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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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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