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Mean Quotes by Julian Barnes
- This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they…
- There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis…
- Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and…
- Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure…
- The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.
- He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't…
- 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…
- But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the…
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams