Memories Quotes by Julian Barnes

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

— Julian Barnes

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

— Julian Barnes

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Julian Barnes

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

Memory is identity…You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you…

— Julian Barnes

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the…

— Julian Barnes

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense…

— Julian Barnes

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than…

— Julian Barnes

What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was…

— Julian Barnes

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your…

— Julian Barnes

“Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in…

— Julian Barnes

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense…

— Julian Barnes

But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get…

— Julian Barnes