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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Interesting
Art
Form
Self
Introspection
Nowhere
Analysis
Leads

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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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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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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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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The evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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