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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

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention

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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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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