Louis de Bernieres Quotes

• We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

  Luis de Bernieres

  Two, Roots, Tree

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• Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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  Sad Love, Art, Being In Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• El amor no es falta de aliento; no es excitación; no es la promulgación de promesas de pasión eterna. Eso no es más que estar "enamorado", algo de lo que cualquiera de nosotros puede convencerse. El amor en sí mismo es lo que queda cuando el estar enamorado se ha consumido, y esto es tanto un arte como un afortunado accidente.

  Luis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Sad Love, Art

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

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  Children, Focus, Passionate

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• ...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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  Stupid, Ignorance, Ideas

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

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  Kindness, Real, Civilization

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• Cuando te enamoras, es una locura temporal. Estalla como un terremoto y luego se calma. Y cuando se calma, tienes que tomar una decisión. Tienes que decidir si vuestras raíces están tan entrelazadas que es inconcebible que os separéis.

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  Amor, Romántico, Matrimonio

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

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  Fear, Causes, Remember

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• Al corazón humano le gusta un poco de desorden en su geometría.

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  Heart, Littles, Likes

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage

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• Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

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  Beautiful, Hurt, World

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

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  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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

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  People, United States, Meals

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• In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

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  World, Stranger, Passing

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• Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

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  Hombres, Alas, Pájaro

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• How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

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  World, Strange, Should

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• El amor es una especie de demencia con síntomas clínicos muy precisos y repetidos a menudo. Os sonrojáis el uno en presencia del otro, los dos rondáis en lugares por los que esperáis que pase el otro, a los dos se os traba un poco la lengua, los dos os reís inexplicablemente y demasiado tiempo, tú te vuelves bastante nauseabundamente afeminada y él se vuelve ridículamente galante. También te has vuelto un poco estúpido.

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  Stupid, Love Is, Long

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

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• The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

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  Flower, Garden, Needs

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

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  Men, Soldier, Has Beens

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.104, Vintage

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• Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

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  Women, Being Appreciated, Feels

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.71, Vintage

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• We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

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  Ideas, Care, Killing Each Other

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Jul 11, 2011

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• 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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  Ambition, Thinking, Trouble

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• El amor es una locura pasajera. Estalla como un terremoto y luego se calma.

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  Sad Love, Love Is, Literature History

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011

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• [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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  Eye, Men, Mouths

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.477, Vintage

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• Tus labios son como el azúcar Y tus mejillas una manzana Tus pechos son el paraíso Y tu cuerpo un lirio. Oh, besar el azúcar Morder la manzana Revelar el paraíso Y abrir el lirio.

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  Kissing, Apples, Lilies

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• He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

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  Noche, Insomnio, Pensamiento

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