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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Graham Greene
Heart, Two, Cold
Graham Greene (1948). “The Heart of the Matter”

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Graham Greene
Heart, Misery, Dictator
Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

Graham Greene
Heart, Men, Names
'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

Graham Greene
Heart, Fruit, Decay
Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

Graham Greene
Running, Hate, Heart
"The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

Graham Greene
Heart, Mind, Age
Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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 practices. 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.

Graham Greene
Heart, Men, Practice
Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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