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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.

Graham Greene

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Choice Moments Story
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Journalism Media Word
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENE

Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price

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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