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“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
― Graham Greene

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

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of th pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull prependicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there. Well, the pendulum swung today and I thought, instead of my own body, of Maurice's. I thought of certain lines life had put on his face as personal as a line of his writing: I thought of a new scar on his shoulder that wouldn't have been there if once he hadn't tried to protect another man's body from a falling wall. He didn't tell me why he was in hospital those three days: Henry told me. That scar was part of his character as much as his jealousy. And so I thought, do I want that body to be vapour (mine yes, but his?), and I knew I wanted that scar to exist through all eternity. But could my vapour love that scar? Then I began to want my body that I hated, but only because it could love that scar. We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can even love with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.”
― Greene, Graham

“All good novelists have bad memories.”
― Graham Greene

“You cannot love without intuition.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.”
― Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt

“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