I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.
("The Quiet American")
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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 could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
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Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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