"Was it the case that colours dimmed as……" — Julian Barnes
"Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?"
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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes
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