"Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he……" — Graham Greene
"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 be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves."
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207 Quotes by Graham Greene
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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