I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I fel…

Graham Greene
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying. ✨ Graham Greene (1973). The Collected Edition: The quiet American
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