Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes Quotes about life
“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes Quotes about love
“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”
Julian Barnes book Talking It Over
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“Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes Quotes
“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”
Julian Barnes book England, England
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“Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.”
Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot
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“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
Source: A Life with Books
“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of
“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“You can put it another way, of course; you always can.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”
Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot
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“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”
Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot
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“If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
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