1. In this country, if a person still wants to retain his personal ideals, he must be shrewd.

2. Perhaps only in childhood, books will have a profound impact on our lives. Later in life, we admire, we appreciate, and we may revise some of our existing views, but it is more likely that we will only find confirmation of what we already have in our minds from books.

3. It felt as if all the men of the past and all the men of the future had cast their shadows into the present.

4. Sooner or later you have to choose a side, if you still want to be a human being.

5. As long as people are happy, they can withstand any discipline: it is unhappiness that destroys work habits.

6. No need, no need for anything. This is my trouble. Pain is something that is available to you whenever you need it.

7. Sexual desire is not the worst thing. Just because lust can turn into love any day, any time, we must avoid it. When we fall in love with our sin, we are going to hell.

8. The fallacy of repenting before death is here: Repentance is the fruit of long-term practice and self-discipline, and it cannot be done only by fear.

9. The only true lasting love is one that can accept everything, all disappointments, all failures, and all betrayals. Even if he can accept such sad implementation of Yi Zhongtian, in the end, his deepest desire can only be simple companionship.

10. If people are not living well, they will be jealous of the happiness of others.

11. There are many strange things in life. People have discovered that no matter how difficult life is, there are always certain moments when you are still very happy, and you can always compare it with more unlucky moments. Even in the midst of hardships, the pendulum still swings back and forth.

12. Only in the wilderness, in a place that is almost isolated from the world, can the religious outlook of the civilized world and the expulsion of primitive forces be revealed, and the omnipresent lethality of ignorant piety and secular prejudice be highlighted.

13. Fear and death are not the worst things. Sometimes telling life to go on is a mistake.

14. In his field, laughter seems to be the language of the enemy, which he cannot understand.

15. When people are young, they often mistake various expressions of indifference for something special, which is a pity.

16. I feel very lonely, as if lies have always been my only friend.

17. In most people’s lives, they often face a moment of catastrophe without knowing it.

18. When a limb is mutilated, it loses the sense of pain. On the other hand, leprosy patients with stiff fingers and necrotic nerves suffered great pain - almost unbearable pain; but on the other hand, this pain prevented the fingers from rotting to a certain extent.

19. Pain is something that can be provided to you whenever you need it.

20. In the final analysis, this is not a serious matter; since he has already allowed himself to sink, adding a little pain now is not worth mentioning.

21. The priest sighed. He felt hollow because of the suffering he faced. Fear is more tiring than a monotonous, long journey.

22. What they thought was "safety" turned out to be enemies in disguise. He finally used his tricks in the name of friendship, trust and compassion.

23. No one expected that the cemetery would suddenly be immersed in tremendous pain. They are used to children dying, but they are not used to one thing that the rest of the world is already familiar with: the loss of hope.

24. The sorrow after the incident had weighed heavily on his heart before it happened.

25. If a person owns something securely, he never needs to use it.

26. As long as we express our guilt, we can quietly get rid of our faults. How easy it is for us to believe this!

27. Once the currency changes and new portraits are put on the coins, the old currency will have no greater value except its own silver content. One has the right to hide it.

28. Sometimes, a cliché of worldly wisdom will emerge from a conversation like a note of doom.

29. In childhood, there is always a moment when the door is opened and the future is revealed.

30. If they think you appreciate them, they will also appreciate you because of your good eyesight. And when they admire you, you will temporarily falsely think that there is really something admirable about you. All my life I have tried to live in this illusion.

Graham Greene

Graham Greene (October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991 [1]), British writer and screenwriter , literary critic. In 1932, he became famous with "Stamboul Train". In 1950, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the first time and was nominated 21 times in his life. He is known as the uncrowned king of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1976, he won the Master Award, the highest honor awarded by the Mystery Writers Association of America. In 1981, he won the Jerusalem Literature Prize. In 1986, he was awarded the British Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II. Until Greene's death, he was hailed as "the greatest writer of the 20th century." William Golding named him "the most remarkable recorder of human consciousness and anxiety in the 20th century." At the same time, Green is also one of Marquez's favorite writers. Marquez once said to him: "I am your loyal reader, Mr. Green."