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“Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or be possessed without humiliation.”
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“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
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