Anita Brookner Quotes About Love
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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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You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.
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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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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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