“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”
Source: The Heart of the Matter
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Graham Greene 164
English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991Related quotes
“It is always the simple things that can really warm the heart.”
Original: Sono sempre le semplici cose che riescono davvero a scaldare il cuore.
Source: prevale.net
Non è sí duro cor che, lagrimando,
pregando, amando, talor non si smova,
né sí freddo voler, che non si scalde.
Canzone 265, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
"Letter to Neilson Abeel" (October 4, 1935).
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.”
"Great Thought" (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
Context: There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
