A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENEAn 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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