Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventu…

Julian Barnes
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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be. ✨ Julian Barnes (2011). The Sense of an Ending, p.105, Random House
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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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]
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. ✨ Julian Barnes (2011). The Sense of an Ending, p.144, Random House
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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be. ✨ Julian Barnes (2011). The Sense of an Ending, p.105, Random House

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