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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

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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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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Choice Moments Story
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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

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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