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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.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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