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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.

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