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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene

I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love

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