"When you're young - when I was young……" — Julian Barnes

When you're young - when I was young - you want your… - Julian Barnes
"When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?"

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