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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Graham Greene

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike

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