Graham Greene citations célèbres
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
Graham Greene: Citations en anglais
“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”
Our Man in Havana (1958)
“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”
Source: The Heart of the Matter
“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”
(8 July 1987) Reported in Leopoldo Duran, Graham Greene: An intimate portrait by his closest friend and confidant, translated by Euan Cameron. HarperCollins, 1994, p. 97
“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”
On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)
“That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.”
Getting to know the General (1984)
