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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
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