717 Quotes by Graham Greene

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    I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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    Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.

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    Se había puesto de nuevo melancólica. Y por primera vez pensé que quizá las dalias no eran suficiente ocupación para un hombre jubilado.

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    I loved a man,"she said. "I told you - a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.

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    He watched her go out of the dark office like fifteen wasted years.

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    Nuevos paisajes, nuevas aduanas. La acumulación de recuerdos. Una vida larga no depende de los años. Un hombre sin recuerdos puede llegar a los cien años y sentir que su vida ha sido muy corta.

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    The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

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    Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.

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    It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations

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