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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Graham Greene

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
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
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
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.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong

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