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  1. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    {on grief} And you do come out of it, that's true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
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  2. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
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  3. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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  4. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.
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  5. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
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  6. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books."
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  7. Julian Barnes _ Flaubert's Parrot

    Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic?
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