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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

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

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Oneself Side
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time

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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