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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. — Sebastian Faulks

It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table. — Sebastian Faulks

Something had been buried that was not yet dead. — Sebastian Faulks

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time. — Sebastian Faulks

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief? — Sebastian Faulks

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it? — Sebastian Faulks

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it. — Sebastian Faulks

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people. — Sebastian Faulks

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved. — Sebastian Faulks

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one. — Sebastian Faulks

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. — Sebastian Faulks

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial. — Sebastian Faulks

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. — Sebastian Faulks

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane? — Sebastian Faulks

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened. — Sebastian Faulks

Time makes us pointless. — Sebastian Faulks

What a pair of frauds. — Sebastian Faulks

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you — Sebastian Faulks

These are things that help me if not lose then leave behind, what else, my self. — Sebastian Faulks

One of the young officers was playing a piano in the corner, although not all the men were singing the same song. — Sebastian Faulks

All that once I'd known, I had forgotten. — Sebastian Faulks

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it. — Sebastian Faulks

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. — Sebastian Faulks

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. — Sebastian Faulks

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand. — Sebastian Faulks

If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely? — Sebastian Faulks

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible. — Sebastian Faulks

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future. — Sebastian Faulks

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. — Sebastian Faulks

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. — Sebastian Faulks

She was so beautiful I had to move away. — Sebastian Faulks

Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom. — Sebastian Faulks

He really was a prize ass. — Sebastian Faulks

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything. — Sebastian Faulks

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing. — Sebastian Faulks

I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke. — Sebastian Faulks

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently. — Sebastian Faulks

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. — Sebastian Faulks

The end-of-summer winds make people restless. — Sebastian Faulks

No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor. — Sebastian Faulks

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be — Sebastian Faulks

Grief is a peculiar emotion. — Sebastian Faulks

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. — Sebastian Faulks

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. — Sebastian Faulks

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. — Sebastian Faulks

This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded — Sebastian Faulks

He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant. — Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine. — Sebastian Faulks

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. — Sebastian Faulks

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks

the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In — Sebastian Faulks

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes. — Sebastian Faulks

The thunder of false modesty was deafening. — Sebastian Faulks

I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness. — Sebastian Faulks

The more I heard, the less I knew. — Sebastian Faulks

But I can hardly remember what it felt like. It's like everything that happens to you. It doesn't feel real. — Sebastian Faulks

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. — Sebastian Faulks

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings. — Sebastian Faulks

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real. — Sebastian Faulks

We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself. — Sebastian Faulks

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. — Sebastian Faulks

I wonder what it's like to be dead. — Sebastian Faulks

The physical shock took away the pain of being. — Sebastian Faulks

The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home. — Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away. — Sebastian Faulks

But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only. — Sebastian Faulks

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. — Sebastian Faulks

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. — Sebastian Faulks

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . . — Sebastian Faulks

There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers. — Sebastian Faulks

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. — Sebastian Faulks

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you. — Sebastian Faulks

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace. — Sebastian Faulks

There is only one life; it is therefore perfect. — Sebastian Faulks

If only I could have my time again. — Sebastian Faulks

I'm not going to miss all this, am I? — Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. — Sebastian Faulks

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks

You put your time where your priority is. — Sebastian Faulks

There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved. — Sebastian Faulks