Julian Barnes Quotes About Levels Of Life
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Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
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Every love story is a potential grief story.
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You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.
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We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
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