You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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