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Quotes by Gerald Brenan

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.

Gerald Brenan (1894 - )
 
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

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Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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