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Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Graham Greene

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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive 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
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

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