"If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act...
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
More Graham Greene quotes
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"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Re...
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"I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
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"I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There ar...
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"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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"disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
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