Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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