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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENE

Country Love Loyalty World
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

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

Assignment Death Life
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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