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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
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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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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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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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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 self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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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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