Julian Barnes - Levels of Life (2013)

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Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

Julian Barnes

Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.

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Opera cuts to the chase—as death does... [it is] an art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.

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