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Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time Quotes: Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
         

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.


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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
         



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