When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the se…

Julian Barnes
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When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again. ✨ Julian Barnes (1984). Flaubert's parrot, Vintage
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