“When you are in your twenties, if 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.”
More from Julian Barnes
“Because now I could only be indifferent; I had no emotions left to lend.”
“She knew me better than anyone else in the world. And still wanted to have lunch with me.”
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.”
“There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young.”