It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.

Graham Greene

Tag: dreams nightmares

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As long as one suffers one lives.

Graham Greene

Tag: life suffering

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I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

Graham Greene

Tag: experience travel primitive

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I have never planned anything illegal in my life,' Aunt Augusta said. 'How could I plan anything of the kind when I have never read any of the laws and have no idea what they are?

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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Graham Greene

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Δε γίνεται να εμποδίσεις τη δημιουργία μαρτύρων. Το μόνο που μπορεί κανείς να κάνει είναι να κοιτάξει να περιορίσει τον αριθμό τους. Αν ήξερα κάποιους Χριστιανούς τον καιρό του Νέρωνα, θα προσπαθούσα να τους σώσω απ' τα λιοντάρια, εξηγώντας τους πως είναι προτιμότερο να ζει κανείς με την πίστη του, παρά να πεθαίνει γι' αυτήν.

Graham Greene

Tag: religion philosophical

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Ίσως η σεξουαλική επαφή να είναι και η καίρια δοκιμή. Αν καταφέρουμε να ζήσουμε χωρίς αυτήν όλο ευσπλαχνία γι' αυτούς που αγαπάμε κι όλο συμπάθεια γι' αυτούς που έχουμε προδώσει, τότε δε χρειάζεται ν' ανησυχούμε για το καλό και το κακό που συνυπάρχουν μέσα μας. Όμως αν αφήσουμε και μας κυριαρχήσει η ζήλεια, η δυσπυστία, η σκληρότητα, η εκδικητικότητα και η ανταπόδοση, τότε έχουμε αποτύχει και το λάθος μας θα 'ναι αυτή η ίδια η αποτυχία μας, ακόμα κι αν είμαστε τα θύματα και όχι οι θύτες. Η αρετή δεν αποτελεί δικαιολογία...

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Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

Graham Greene

Tag: truth death philosophical

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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

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The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

Graham Greene

Tag: the-quiet-american

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