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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.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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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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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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