Relationships
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But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, on October 2, 1904.
* He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926.
* His first novel, The Man Within, was published in 1929.
* He wrote over 25 novels, including The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana.
* He also wrote short stories, essays, travelogues, and screenplays.
* He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1969 and the Companion of Honour in 1986.
* He died in Vevey, Switzerland, on April 3, 1991.
* He is considered one of the most important English novelists of the 20th century.
* He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926.
* His first novel, The Man Within, was published in 1929.
* He wrote over 25 novels, including The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana.
* He also wrote short stories, essays, travelogues, and screenplays.
* He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1969 and the Companion of Honour in 1986.
* He died in Vevey, Switzerland, on April 3, 1991.
* He is considered one of the most important English novelists of the 20th century.
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Love
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
Life
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Writing
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Love
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It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
Time
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
Happiness
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
Love
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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