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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

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
GRAHAM GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain

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.

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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.

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