Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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