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 GREENEI say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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