All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
From Anita Brookner
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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