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Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres

British novelist

Lived from: 1954 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 8 december 1954

  • Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
  • 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.
  • When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
  • Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
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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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  • Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74
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  • God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
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  • History is the propaganda of the victors.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 57
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  • In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
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  • It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
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  • Love delayed is lust augmented.
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  • Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 399
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  • Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
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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.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994)
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  • Money has no religion except itself.
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  • No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 104
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  • People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
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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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  • Symmetry is for God, not for us.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 257
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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.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119
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  • The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 256
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  • The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
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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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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Louis de Bernieres?

The two most famous quotes from Louis de Bernieres are:

  • "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."
  • "Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?"

When did Louis de Bernieres live?

Louis de Bernieres was born in 1954.