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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.

Graham Greene

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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 GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality

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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