It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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