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

Graham Greene

You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENE

Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim

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

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