Anita Brookner

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be. Anita Brookner

Health I Am Learning

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner

Love Is love People

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. Anita Brookner

Busy Game Games

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. Anita Brookner

easy qoute Great Life

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. Anita Brookner

Selfish Your Yourself

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. Anita Brookner

Beginning Beginnings Love Is

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. Anita Brookner

Bold Gift Good

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. Anita Brookner

Freedom Teen Youth

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. Anita Brookner

Charm Liar Man

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. Anita Brookner

God Hero Religion

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Anita Brookner

Accountability Friendship love