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Graham Greene

“Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God—a being capable of understanding.”

Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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The Quiet American The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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