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Human Quotes by Graham Greene
- Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,…
- 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 nature is not black and white but black and grey.
- 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…
- I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
- Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it…
- They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human…
- 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…
- It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
- Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
- I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I…
- If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
- I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him.…
- It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who…
- Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
- When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.…
- People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way…
- It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,…
- In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and…
- Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness,…
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