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“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…”

Julian Barnes

Source: Levels of Life

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”

Julian Barnes

Source: Levels of Life