Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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