Gerald Brenan Quotes

• Todos somos aburridos para alguien. Eso no tiene importancia. Lo que hay que evitar es ser aburrido para uno mismo.

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  Boredom, Bores, Oneself

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

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  Business, Thinking, Words Of Wisdom

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

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  Wisdom, Views, Opinion

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

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  Butterfly, People, Relaxation

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• En un matrimonio feliz es la esposa la que proporciona el clima, el marido el paisaje.

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  Anniversary, Wedding, Husband

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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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  Dar, Edad, Envejecimiento

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

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  Felicidad, Feliz, País

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• Confesamos nuestras malas cualidades a los demás por miedo a parecer ingenuos o ridículos al no ser conscientes de ellas.

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  Quality, Bad Qualities, Ridiculous

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• Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

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  Broken Heart, Two, People

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• As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

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  Happy Life, Generosity, Giving

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• The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

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  Sympathy, Sorry, People

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• La mediana edad extingue más talentos que las guerras o la muerte súbita.

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  Death, War, Age

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• A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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  Mother, Memories, Invention

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• 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 our natures.

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  Time, Acquisition, Imitation

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• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

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  Morning, Attitude, Writing

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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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  Creer, Ideas, Gente

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• We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

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  Death, Hurt, Should

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• Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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  Animal, Circus, Cracks

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• The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

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  Escritura, Edad, Literatura

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• The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

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  Race, Poetry, Literature

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• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

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  Writing, Somewhere Else, Pages

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• You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

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  Hurt, Business, Knowledge

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• The cliche is dead poetry.

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  Cliché

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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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  Class, People, Special

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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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  Love, Believe, Mean

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