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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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 GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Goodness Innocence Save
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Alive One Liner
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner

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