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1 " Love delayed is lust augmented. "
― Louis de Bernières
2 " Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us. "
3 " No man is a man until he has been a soldier. "
― Louis de Bernières , Corelli's Mandolin
4 " Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. "
5 " Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. "
6 " Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries’ worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches. "
― Louis de Bernières , Birds Without Wings
7 " There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still. "
― Louis de Bernières , Red Dog
8 " Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous. "
9 " That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal. "
10 " the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have 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. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck. "
― Louis de Bernières , A Partisan's Daughter
11 " The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. "
12 " Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? "
13 " Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand? "
14 " Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it. "
15 " The dead can read tears. "
16 " joy, "
― Louis de Bernières , Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
17 " Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat. "
― Louis de Bernières , The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
18 " And the priest will say, ‘This is a matter of the Devil and not of God,’ and I will reply, ‘Did God not make the Devil? Is He not omniscient? How can I be blamed for what He knew would occur from the very commencement of time? "
19 " If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and you would never know what they would have been like, those roads not taken. "
― Louis de Bernières , So Much Life Left Over
20 " It was said that there was a smile at the corners of his lips from the moment of his birth, and from early boyhood he was a specialist in in appropriate interjections. "
