There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.
Graham GreeneIt was the hour of prayer. Black-beetles exploded against the walls like crackers. More than a dozen crawled over the tiles with injured wings. It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy — a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew.
Graham GreeneTag: greene power-glory
To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.
Graham GreeneLies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
Graham GreeneInsecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Graham GreeneTag: love marriage insecurity
Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.
Graham GreeneTag: life
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
Graham GreeneEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Graham GreeneTag: eternity
In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.
Graham GreeneI have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.
Graham GreeneTag: love
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