Interesting quotations from The Quiet American

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A few quotations that I found interesting in The Quiet American by Graham Greene.

"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it when we look around and see who else is wanted too."

"To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour---the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two."

"The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in body and mind to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation."