Of 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.
GRAHAM GREENEI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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