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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#anything #bad #being #blame #else

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #born #crime #envy #faith

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#around #ball #ball game #business #exciting

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

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

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#bad thing #become #movie #obsessed #sense

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature

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. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never