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No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness. — Graham Greene

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No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene
1948
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Existential solitudeEmpathy
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1948
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Graham Greene
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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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