Portrait of a Girl Quotes

“What else is there to sustain us if not our dreams, and what should we strive for if not for their realization?”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“If you’re treated badly for a long time, you can’t believe it when you’re suddenly treated well. You have to get used to it gradually.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“never had any jewelry, or at most, they wore a little cross. It struck”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“Real life is nothing but a dream, a dream to eventually approach an ideal that is as distant and high as possible, so high as to extinguish matter.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“That’s what nature teaches you: the inescapable cycle of birth, life, death. We are part of it, like the plants, and the animals. Nature is not good and it is not evil; nature is.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“She admired all these women who were mothers. My God, you had to be devilishly careful not to say the wrong thing.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“His life now had only the one side, the bright side; he had achieved this with great effort. Yet deep down, he knew that the dark side persisted, just as death is a part of every life.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl

“And once men have their own money, Emma thought not for the first time, they become unpredictable.”
― Dörthe Binkert, Portrait of a Girl