It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamorous one in the fury of disappointed love (see: Great Literature).
Julian BarnesThere is the question of accumulation (...) just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.
Julian BarnesIf I can't be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left.
Julian BarnesFor most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life.
Julian BarnesDid you leave me because of me?" "No," she said. "I left you because of us.
Julian BarnesBooks are not life, however much we may wish they were
Julian BarnesWe can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.
Julian BarnesWith a lover, a wife, when you find the worst - be it infidelity or lack of love, madness or the suicidal spark - you are almost relieved. Life is as I thought it was; shall we now celebrate this disappointment?
Julian BarnesThe past is something we can neither hold on to nor move entirely beyond.
Julian BarnesHe always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.
Julian BarnesTags: love death marriage death-and-dying illness arthur-conan-doyle death-of-a-loved-one
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