Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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