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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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Friendship
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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