Julian Barnes Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

  Julian Barnes

  Simple, Purpose, Clarity

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Confused

• 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.

  Julian Barnes

  Loss, Thinking, Long

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.105, Random House

• Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

  Julian Barnes

  Stars, Pride, Long

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

• 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 evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Feelings, Age

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