Accidents Quote by Louis de Bernieres

“Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

Louis de Bernieres

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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 ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

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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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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could…

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