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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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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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There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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