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“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”
― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”
― Graham Greene

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.”
― Graham Greene

“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, The End of the Affair

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
― Graham Greene

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“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, Travels with My Aunt

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
― Graham Greene

“Never presume yours is a better morality.”
― Graham Greene

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”
― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“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. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I’m tired and I don’t want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don’t want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.”
― Graham Greene , The Heart of the Matter

“There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.”
― Graham Greene

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols