"In deference to such spectacular carnage it is……" — Louis de Bernieres
"In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them."
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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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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
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