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Been Quotes by Graham Greene
- The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In…
- If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.…
- I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved…
- Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret…
- 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…
- What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it…
- So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but…
- Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on…
- Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to…
- They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
- 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…
- He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound…
- Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
- 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…
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