Death Quote by Gerald Brenan

“We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.”

Gerald Brenan

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Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

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One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about…

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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…

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A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

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