She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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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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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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