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

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
To 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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE

Artist Success Thinking

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