There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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