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 GREENEThere 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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.
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