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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.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
existentialism, hero, saint, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
alibi, Among the, self-important
«The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Romantic love
| Keywords:
impossibility, romantic, romantic love
«Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Love,
Pilgrimage
| Keywords:
pilgrimage, pilgrimages, strategy, The Pilgrimage
«A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.»
«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.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
come to light, duplicity, engage, flat, justification, self-justification
«Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.»
«It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
Aesop, contention, contentions, hares, tortoise, tortoises
«Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.»
«You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.»
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