Я сказал, что то, что вы найдете совсем необязательно будет тем, чего вы хотели. Например любовь. Она не такая, как нам казалось вначале. Все согласны? Лучше, хуже, дольше, короче, более значительна, менее значительна, но не такая. И еще, у каждого по-своему. Но это то, что узнаешь лишь постепенно - что для тебя любовь. Сколько ее у тебя. Что ты готов ради нее отдать. Как она живет. Как она умирает. У Оливера была теория, он называл ее "Любовь и т.д.": другими словами, мир делится на людей, для которых любовь - это все, а остальное - просто "т.д.", и людей, которые не достаточно высоко ставят любовь и считают, что самое интересное в жизни это "т.д".
Julian BarnesTags: love
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
Julian BarnesWhen we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.
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You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child
of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than
average marriage yourself – either through some genetic
inheritance or because you’d learnt from example? But it
doesn’t seem to work like that. So perhaps you need the
opposite example – to see mistakes in order not to make
them yourself. Except this would mean that the best way for
parents to ensure their children have happy marriages
would be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what’s the
answer?
And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It’s just as eloquent as speech.
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Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
Julian BarnesTags: childhood childhood-memories
But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.
Julian BarnesTags: cocktease
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
Julian BarnesTags: life
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
Julian BarnesHistory is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Julian BarnesTags: history
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