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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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
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Library
Humans
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Behavior
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Baffle
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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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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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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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