"This was another of our fears: that Life……" — Julian Barnes
"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature."
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Julian Barnes
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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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More Fears Quotes
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
— Margaret Atwood
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
— Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
— Abu Bakr
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
— Honore de Balzac
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
— A. C. Benson
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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