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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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 seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
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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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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.
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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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