Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.
Julian BarnesHow rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
Julian BarnesNo sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to fall off.
Julian BarnesI was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.
Julian BarnesThe writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
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