There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEIn Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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