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

—Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending

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About Julian Barnes

Portrait of Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English essayist, novelist and short story writer.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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Be the chief but never the lord.

Imagination rules the world.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

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