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Julian Barnes

"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."

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"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."

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"Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one's conduct in ignorance of the self."

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"I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away."

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"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."

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"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't."
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"How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop."
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"How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at the end-of-the-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet."
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"Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior."
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"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."
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"Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure."
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"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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"Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death."
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