"Novels tell us the most truth about life:……" — Julian Barnes
"Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it."
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
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Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen:…
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is…
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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not.…
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic…
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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But…
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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