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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

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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
People
Sociology
Humanity
Love

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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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The problem of pretending to be alive.
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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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