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 GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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