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“Things, once gone, can’t be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can’t be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can’t be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn’t forget, because we have been changed for ever.”
― Julian Barnes

“If you live long enough you realise that every proven fact is later disproved and then proven again.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“We’re all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don’t find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Anxiety,’ Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, ‘is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time