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“How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world” quote by Louis de Bernieres — Download Open image

“How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world”

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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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“The dead can read tears.”

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...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be…

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Love delayed is lust augmented.

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No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

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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?

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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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Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar…

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When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you…

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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

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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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“Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.”

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