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Anita Brookner: You have no...

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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Source: Mr. Neville, in Hotel du Lac, ch. 7 (1984).
-- Anita Brookner, (Jul 16 1928-2016), English art historian, writer; She wrote biographical studies of 18th C. painters, including Jacques-Louis David, 1981; wrote novel Hotel du Lac, 1984.


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