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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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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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