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 GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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