33 ordspråk av Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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