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Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.

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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.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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 …
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 …

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