Graham Greene

An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.

The Quiet American

My caveat would be: he’s talking not about authentic love, but the combination of emotion and mind which feels close to it, the general (often maritally-driven, “she’s the one”) idea of being swept up “in love”.

Zeke Taylor

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. Perhaps I was no longer in love but I remembered.

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