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1bf1e80
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You're still in it. You'll always be in it. No, not literally. But in your heart. Nothing ever ends, not if it's gone that deep. You'll always be walking wounded. That's the only choice, after a while. Walking wounded, or dead. Don't you agree?
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irrevocable
julian-barnes
relationships
the-only-story
walking-wounded
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Julian Barnes |
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e806c93
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Because once you had been through certain things, their presence inside you never really disappeared.
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irrevocable
julian-barnes
ptsd
the-only-story
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Julian Barnes |
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aff24b1
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Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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gazing
holding-hands
iris-murdoch
irrevocable
love
romance
romantic
the-black-prince
touch
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Iris Murdoch |
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9c107d3
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I thought--at some level of my being, I actually thought--that I could go back to the beginning and change things. That I could make the blood flow backwards. I had the vanity to imagine--even if I didn't put it more strongly than this--that I could make Veronica like me again, and that it was important to do so.
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irrevocable
julian-barnes
the-past
the-sense-of-an-ending
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Julian Barnes |
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9aa7eb7
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I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian's unfinished sentence: 'So, for instance, if Tony . . .' I knew I couldn't change, or mend, anything now.
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irrevocable
julian-barnes
sad
the-sense-of-an-ending
unfinished
unfixable
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Julian Barnes |