Love Quote by Anita Brookner

“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.”

Anita Brookner

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If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

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I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,…

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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm…

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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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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill…

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I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather.…

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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

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“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I knew that I loved him, it was his whole life that I loved. And I would never know that life. Changes would no doubt take place, and I would not even know what they were. 'How is he?'…

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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

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I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts…

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“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea…

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