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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

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
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

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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