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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
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London
England
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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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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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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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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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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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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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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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