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Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner
How had I never heard of Anita Brookner before? I really enjoyed her writing and this book. The conversation in Chapter 7 is absolute perfection.
'It is simply this. Without a huge emotional investment, one can do whatever one pleases. One can take decisions, change one's mind, alter one's plans. There is none of the anxiety of waiting to see if that one other person has everything she desires, if she is discontented, upset, restless, bored. One can be as pleasant or as ruthless as one wants. If one is prepared to do the one thing one is drilled out of doing from earliest childhood - simply please oneself - there is no reason why one should ever be unhappy. again.'
Mr Neville sounds exactly like the guy I was seeing last year.
Edith's response is great: 'Or, perhaps, entirely happy.'
'It is simply this. Without a huge emotional investment, one can do whatever one pleases. One can take decisions, change one's mind, alter one's plans. There is none of the anxiety of waiting to see if that one other person has everything she desires, if she is discontented, upset, restless, bored. One can be as pleasant or as ruthless as one wants. If one is prepared to do the one thing one is drilled out of doing from earliest childhood - simply please oneself - there is no reason why one should ever be unhappy. again.'
Mr Neville sounds exactly like the guy I was seeing last year.
Edith's response is great: 'Or, perhaps, entirely happy.'