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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

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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENE

Country Love Loyalty World
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself

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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