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Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.

Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.
– Graham Greene

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  3. Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. – Graham Greene
  4. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
  5. Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  6. Come to me! Let me take you to a real world of fictions! – Lukhman Pambra
  7. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. – Frank Kermode
  8. Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. – Paul Auster
  9. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal. – Mario Vargas Llosa
  10. This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink. – Terence Paul Winter
  11. We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. – Clive Barker
  12. Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  13. Death was far more certain than God. – Graham Greene
  14. Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener. – Seth Adam Smith
  15. To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  16. I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
  17. God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
  18. I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different – Graham Greene
  19. I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. – Graham Greene
  20. Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. – Graham Greene
  21. I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. – Graham Greene
  22. They killed him because he was too innocent to live. – Graham Greene
  23. It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes. – Graham Greene
  24. Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long. – Graham Greene
  25. He’s satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can’t be satisfied. – Graham Greene
  26. A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn’t conceive what it had never experienced – Graham Greene
  27. He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. – Graham Greene
  28. You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. – Graham Greene
  29. She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there. – Graham Greene
  30. We forget very easily what gives us pain. – Graham Greene
  31. He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. – Graham Greene
  32. A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. – Graham Greene
  33. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
  34. … and then beginning to go back to what you can’t even remember. – Graham Greene
  35. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. – Graham Greene
  36. Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. – Graham Greene
  37. Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times. – Graham Greene
  38. There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. – Graham Greene
  39. He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. – Graham Greene
  40. I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home. – Graham Greene

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