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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!

Graham Greene

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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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 a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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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Love Myself Thinking

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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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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