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• Gerald Brenan:

  As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

• Gerald Brenan:

  If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offens

• Gerald Brenan:

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

• Gerald Brenan:

  A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

• Gerald Brenan:

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

• Gerald Brenan:

  Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

• Gerald Brenan:

  Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

• Gerald Brenan:

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

• Gerald Brenan:

  In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

• Gerald Brenan:

  We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aw