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Death was far more certain than God.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
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The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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You cannot love without intuition.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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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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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
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