When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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