"I know this much: that there is objective……" — Julian Barnes
"I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory."
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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