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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

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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
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 a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics

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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