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Peter’s Quotes

“The past is something we can neither hold on to nor move entirely beyond.”
― Julian Barnes

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“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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