Graham Greene citations célèbres
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
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)
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
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)
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
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
Graham Greene livre Brighton Rock
Source: Brighton Rock (1938)
“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
Source: The Heart of the Matter
“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”
Graham Greene livre The Quiet American
Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Source: The Quiet American (1955)
“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
Graham Greene livre The Quiet American
Source: The Quiet American
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
Source: The Heart of the Matter
“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
Graham Greene livre 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 livre Le Fond du problème
Source: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
Graham Greene livre 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 livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene livre The Power and the Glory
Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
Source: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene livre 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 livre The Power and the Glory
Source: The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene livre The Quiet American
Source: The Quiet American
Graham Greene livre The Quiet American
Source: The Quiet American
“As long as one suffers one lives.”
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Bk. 5, ch. 1
Source: The End of the Affair (1951)
Graham Greene livre Le Fond du problème
Source: The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Variante: 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
“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”
Graham Greene livre The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
Graham Greene livre Les Comédiens
Source: The Comedians (1966)
