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“Et combien faut-il de ces petites garces pour faire 2,5kg à votre avis? Je vais vous le dire : il en faut 300, c'est-à-dire, une fois coupées, 600 morceaux baignant dans leur jus, des pépins à ôter 600 fois à la pointe du couteau, avec l'inquiétude d'en oublier.”

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The Pedant in the Kitchen

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“Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”

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Source: Levels of Life

“Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.”

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Source: Levels of Life

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.”

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“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

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Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”

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Source: A Life with Books

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”

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Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”

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Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

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Julian Barnes livre Talking It Over

Source: Talking It Over

“You can put it another way, of course; you always can.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“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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Source: Levels of Life

“It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”

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Source: Levels of Life

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”

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Source: Levels of Life

“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.”

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Source: Levels of Life

“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?”

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Julian Barnes livre The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.”

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Julian Barnes livre Arthur & George

Source: Arthur & George

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

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Julian Barnes livre Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.”

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