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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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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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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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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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