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Graham Greene1904–1991

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity⁠— that was a quality God’s image carried with it.

Graham Greene on emotion

The Power and the Glory (1940)

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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
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Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
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