Julian Barnes: Quotes about memories

Julian Barnes is English writer. Explore interesting quotes on memory.

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“I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”

Julian Barnes book England, England

Source: England, England

“He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”

Source: Levels of Life

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot