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Merely Quotes by Julian Barnes
- [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of…
- When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.…
- 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…
- Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
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- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
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