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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
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If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
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A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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The problem of pretending to be alive.
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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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