You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENETo be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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