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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Louis de Bernieres

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Louis de Bernieres
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 8
Novelist
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London
England
Louis de Bernieres
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Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
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[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.
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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
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We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
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Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
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Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
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Love delayed is lust augmented.
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Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
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God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
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Money has no religion except itself.
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Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it
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