He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
Graham GreeneTag: soul narcissism graham-greene doctor-fischer-of-geneva
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.
Graham GreeneTag: books love authors graham-greene doctor-fischer-of-geneva
You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears.
Graham GreeneTag: graham-greene-faith-virtues
Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name.
Graham GreeneHatred is a failure of imagination.'
Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneTag: truth kindness lies philosophers human-relationships symbol mathematicians
Can't one love or hate", I broke out at him, "as long as that? Don't make any mistake. I'm just another of your jealous clients, I don't claim to be any different fro m the rest,but there's been a time-lag in my case.
Graham GreeneThe pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.
Graham GreeneShe had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one ‘you’ in the world and that was me.
Graham GreeneTag: love
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
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