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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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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
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Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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