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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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University Teacher
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London
England
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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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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