Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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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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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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