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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

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

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

Assignment Death Life
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Black Human Nature
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
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
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself

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.

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