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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.
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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.
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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?
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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.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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Time makes us pointless.
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What a pair of frauds.
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People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
— Sebastian Faulks
One of the young officers was playing a piano in the corner, although not all the men were singing the same song.
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All that once I'd known, I had forgotten.
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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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?
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I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
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How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.
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She was so beautiful I had to move away.
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Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
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He really was a prize ass.
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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.
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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.
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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
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He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.
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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
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He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
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The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
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I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.
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The more I heard, the less I knew.
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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.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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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.
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Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.
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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.
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But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.
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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.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
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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.
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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
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There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
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If only I could have my time again.
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I'm not going to miss all this, am I?
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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
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You put your time where your priority is.
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There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.
— Sebastian Faulks