Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Julian Barnes
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Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast. ✨ Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 7
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evoluti … ▶
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary ✨ Julian Barnes (2011). The Sense of an Ending, p.104, Random House
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so cruc … ▶
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

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