Julian Barnes Quotes.

1. "I don't believe in God, but I miss him."
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2. "When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it."
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3. "One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped."
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4. "Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice."
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5. "How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us."
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6. "What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion."
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7. "..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information."
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8. "Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't."
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9. "The land of embarrassment and breakfast."
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10. "The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
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