Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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