Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens,…

Julian Barnes
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Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain. ✨ Julian Barnes (1985). Flaubert's parrot, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. ✨ Julian Barnes (2011). The Sense of an Ending, p.15, Random House
Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]
Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. ✨ Julian Barnes (1985). Flaubert's parrot, Alfred a Knopf Inc
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel. ✨ Julian Barnes (1984). Flaubert's parrot, Vintage
Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. ✨ Julian Barnes (2010). A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters, p.236, Random House

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