"Life … is a bit like reading. ………" — Julian Barnes
"Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?"
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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