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“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also—if this isn't too grand a word—our tragedy.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man