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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.

Graham Greene

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Choice Moments Story
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
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

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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