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.
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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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