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“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

Graham Greene

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”

Graham Greene

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year… death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”

Graham Greene

“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?”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“As long as one suffers one lives.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Bk. 5, ch. 1
Source: The End of the Affair (1951)

“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Variant: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Source: The End of the Affair