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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Graham Greene

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
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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