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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.

Graham Greene

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories

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