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Julian Patrick Barnes ist ein englischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 19. Januar 1946  •  Andere Namen J. Barnes
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Flauberts Papagei
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Vom Ende einer Geschichte
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Julian Barnes Zitate und Sprüche

„Manchmal glaube ich, es ist der Sinn des Lebens, uns mit seinem letzendlichen Verlust zu versöhnen, indem es uns zermürbt, uns beweist, auch wenn das eine Weile dauern kann, dass das Leben gar nicht so toll ist.“

Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

The Sense of an Ending

„Die Bücher sagen: Sie hat es getan, weil. Das Leben sagt: Sie hat es getan. In den Büchern werden einem die Dinge erklärt; im Leben nicht. Es überrascht mich nicht, dass manche Leute Bücher vorziehen. Bücher verleihen dem Leben einen Sinn. Das Problem dabei ist nur, dass die Leben, denen sie Sinn verleihen, die Leben anderer Leute sind, niemals das eigene.“

Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes: Zitate auf Englisch

“I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…”

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Julian Barnes

Quelle: Levels of Life

“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”

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Julian Barnes

“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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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: Flaubert's Parrot

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“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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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: 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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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: Flaubert's Parrot

“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”

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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: Flaubert's Parrot

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

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“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.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”

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Julian Barnes

Quelle: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”

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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: Flaubert's Parrot

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”

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Julian Barnes

Quelle: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“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.”

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Julian Barnes buch Flauberts Papagei

Quelle: Flaubert's Parrot

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”

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Julian Barnes buch England, England

Quelle: England, England

“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”

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Julian Barnes buch Vom Ende einer Geschichte

Quelle: The Sense of an Ending

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