Notwithstanding Louis De Bernieres Quotes

#1. Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.

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#2. God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

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#3. The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

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#4. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.

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#5. The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing.

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#6. When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

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#7. Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void.

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#8. An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

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#9. entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

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#10. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

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#11. The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.

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#12. People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

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#13. No one is more truly themselves than when they are sick or injured. That's when the qualities come out. And

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#14. Love delayed is lust augmented.

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#15. In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

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#16. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

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#17. I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is ... that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned.

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#21. The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

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#22. If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.

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#23. Few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,

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#24. Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

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#25. Each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart.

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#26. Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

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#27. It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.

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#28. He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love.

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#29. Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and ... it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

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#30. [She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

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