Graham Greene
"There is no peace anywhere where there is human life..." Another Mexico (The Lawless Roads)
Christianity, alone of the great religions, is characterized by "the divided mind, the uneasy conscience, and the sense of personal failure."
Betrayal is apparently the central theme of Greene's oeuvre. Philip Stratford who wrote the introduction to Penguin's The Portable Graham Greene gives as examples Greene's character Scobie's "triple betrayal of his wife, his profession, and his God, which leads him to the self-betrayal of suicide." (p. xi).
That is the most original, insightful description of suicide that I have ever read.
Stratford again: "the significance of betrayal [for Greene]--for betrayal isn't worthy of the name if one doesn't love what one betrays." (p. xiii)
"...when one sees to what unhappiness, to what peril of extinction centuries of cerebration have brought us..." (Journey Without Maps).
That is such a powerful, poetic expression of mankind's dichotomony, the mind and the soul.
-Benjamin Harris
"There is no peace anywhere where there is human life..." Another Mexico (The Lawless Roads)
Christianity, alone of the great religions, is characterized by "the divided mind, the uneasy conscience, and the sense of personal failure."
Betrayal is apparently the central theme of Greene's oeuvre. Philip Stratford who wrote the introduction to Penguin's The Portable Graham Greene gives as examples Greene's character Scobie's "triple betrayal of his wife, his profession, and his God, which leads him to the self-betrayal of suicide." (p. xi).
That is the most original, insightful description of suicide that I have ever read.
Stratford again: "the significance of betrayal [for Greene]--for betrayal isn't worthy of the name if one doesn't love what one betrays." (p. xiii)
"...when one sees to what unhappiness, to what peril of extinction centuries of cerebration have brought us..." (Journey Without Maps).
That is such a powerful, poetic expression of mankind's dichotomony, the mind and the soul.
-Benjamin Harris
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