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“Desespero é o preço que se paga ao se dar um objetivo impossível.”
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
The heart of the matter - página xvii, Graham Greene - Heinemann Educational, 1968 - 266 páginas
Nosso Homem em Havana
“Sentimentalismo é como chamamos o sentimento que não compartilhamos.”
Variante: Sentimentalismo é o nome que damos aos sentimentos que não partilhamos.
Graham Greene: Frases em inglês
“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”
Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Fonte: The Quiet American (1955)
“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
Fonte: The Quiet American
“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
Fonte: The Heart of the Matter
“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”
Fonte: The Ministry of Fear
“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
Fonte: The Power and the Glory
“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
Fonte: The Heart of the Matter
“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
Fonte: The Power and the Glory
“As long as one suffers one lives.”
Bk. 5, ch. 1
Fonte: The End of the Affair (1951)
Variante: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”
Fonte: The End of the Affair
“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
Fonte: The Comedians (1966)