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Graham Greene Quotes

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve Picture Quote #1

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair Picture Quote #1

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort Picture Quote #1

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings Picture Quote #1

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Pain is easy to write. In pain we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? Picture Quote #1

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much Picture Quote #1

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like I fell in love Picture Quote #1

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something Picture Quote #1

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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work Picture Quote #1

I had committed myself: without love I’d have to go through the gestures of love Picture Quote #1

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn’t be spoken aloud when you are happy Picture Quote #1

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck Picture Quote #1

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed Picture Quote #1

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us Picture Quote #1

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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends Picture Quote #1

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all Picture Quote #1

You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other Picture Quote #1

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one’s presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another’s day Picture Quote #1

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He’s satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can’t be satisfied Picture Quote #1

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. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father’s library had not contained the right books Picture Quote #1

I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn’t move to plead his cause Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can’t realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here Picture Quote #1

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It’s just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn’t worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse Picture Quote #1

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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead (Graham Greene Quotes) 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 (Graham Greene Quotes) We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve (Graham Greene Quotes) Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair (Graham Greene Quotes) To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort (Graham Greene Quotes) It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings (Graham Greene Quotes) Pain is easy to write. In pain we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? (Graham Greene Quotes) It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much (Graham Greene Quotes) In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love (Graham Greene Quotes) 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 (Graham Greene Quotes) I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like I fell in love (Graham Greene Quotes) Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something (Graham Greene Quotes) So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work (Graham Greene Quotes) I had committed myself: without love I’d have to go through the gestures of love (Graham Greene Quotes) She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn’t be spoken aloud when you are happy (Graham Greene Quotes) It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck (Graham Greene Quotes) Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed (Graham Greene Quotes) We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us (Graham Greene Quotes) Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends (Graham Greene Quotes) I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all (Graham Greene Quotes) You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other (Graham Greene Quotes) I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought (Graham Greene Quotes) 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 (Graham Greene Quotes) How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one’s presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another’s day (Graham Greene Quotes) He’s satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can’t be satisfied (Graham Greene Quotes) 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. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father’s library had not contained the right books (Graham Greene Quotes) I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn’t move to plead his cause (Graham Greene Quotes) Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can’t realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here (Graham Greene Quotes) When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It’s just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself (Graham Greene Quotes) Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn’t worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse (Graham Greene Quotes)

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