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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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relationships
walking-wounded
the-only-story
irrevocable
julian-barnes
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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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the-only-story
irrevocable
julian-barnes
ptsd
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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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romantic
romance
love
gazing
holding-hands
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
irrevocable
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
the-sense-of-an-ending
julian-barnes
the-past
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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
unfinished
unfixable
the-sense-of-an-ending
julian-barnes
sad
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Julian Barnes |