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GRAHAM GREENEOf two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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 is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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