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“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“For she too has her little pains, and they wear her out, though she does not speak of them, or is not asked, and when they show themselves it tends to be when she's alone.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise

“Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Future Library