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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.

Graham Greene

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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
GRAHAM GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love

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