"Beauty is precious, you see, and the more……" — Louis de Bernieres
"Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world."
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Louis de Bernieres
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38 Quotes by Louis de Bernieres
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
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It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are…
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It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained,…
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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not…
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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly…
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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…
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Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I…
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So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in…
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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being…
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What keeps me going is my children.
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