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When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

Graham Greene
Love, Loyalty, Understanding

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Graham Greene
Lying, Understanding, Tasks
Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Graham Greene
Glasses, Alcohol, Understanding
Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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