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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Graham Greene

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
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
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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

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