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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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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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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
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