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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake.
– Julian Barnes

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  1. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. – Julian Barnes
  2. I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul. – Rachel Scott
  3. Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist. – George Orwell
  4. Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  5. History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
  6. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  7. The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way. – Jim Benton
  8. Opera cuts to the chase-”as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes
  9. Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. – Charles Ray
  10. Throw off your grief,’ doubters imply, ‘and we can all go back to pretending death doesn’t exist, or at least is comfortably far away. – Julian Barnes
  11. History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. – Julian Barnes
  12. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
  13. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
  14. The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
  15. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
  16. But life never lets you go, does it? You can’t put down life the way you put down a book. – Julian Barnes
  17. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen
  18. If you don’t speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don’t really exist – Anuranjita Kumar
  19. Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom – Julian Pencilliah
  20. Don’t make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you. – Unarine Ramaru
  21. The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence. – Chaim Potok
  22. Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! – Nikhil Karke
  23. It is not only business to business sake but human to human sake. – Itzik Amiel
  24. Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake. – Thomas Kempis
  25. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. – Alphonse de Lamartine
  26. Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist. – MF Moonzajer
  27. Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. – Julian Barnes
  28. Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn’t what poor items they would be. – Julian Barnes
  29. The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. – Julian Barnes
  30. The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. – Julian Barnes
  31. Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty. – Julian Barnes
  32. you find yourself repeating, -˜They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. – Julian Barnes
  33. Of course, there were other sorts of literature — theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical — but they were just dry wanks. – Julian Barnes
  34. The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is ‘success’ in mourning? – Julian Barnes
  35. He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. – Julian Barnes
  36. …I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. – Julian Barnes
  37. wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment. – Julian Barnes
  38. May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. – Julian Barnes
  39. ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes
  40. Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. – Julian Barnes

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