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Sebastian Faulks quotes: Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table. It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Something had been buried that was not yet dead. Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time. We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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? 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 quotes: If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it? If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it. 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 quotes: One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people. One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved. There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one. It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane? Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
Sebastian Faulks quotes: It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened. It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Time makes us pointless. Time makes us pointless.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: What a pair of frauds. What a pair of frauds.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
Sebastian Faulks quotes: These are things that help me if not lose then leave behind, what else, my self. These are things that help me if not lose then leave behind, what else, my self.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: One of the young officers was playing a piano in the corner, although not all the men were singing the same song. One of the young officers was playing a piano in the corner, although not all the men were singing the same song.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: All that once I'd known, I had forgotten. All that once I'd known, I had forgotten.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it. But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. 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 quotes: There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely? If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely?
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible. I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future. How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: She was so beautiful I had to move away. She was so beautiful I had to move away.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom. Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: He really was a prize ass. He really was a prize ass.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything. I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing. We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently. This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The end-of-summer winds make people restless. The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor. No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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 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 quotes: Grief is a peculiar emotion. Grief is a peculiar emotion.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded
Sebastian Faulks quotes: He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant. He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. 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 quotes: That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In 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 quotes: He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes. He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The thunder of false modesty was deafening. The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness. 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 quotes: The more I heard, the less I knew. The more I heard, the less I knew.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: But I can hardly remember what it felt like. It's like everything that happens to you. It doesn't feel real. But I can hardly remember what it felt like. It's like everything that happens to you. It doesn't feel real.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real. Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself. 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 quotes: I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I wonder what it's like to be dead. I wonder what it's like to be dead.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The physical shock took away the pain of being. The physical shock took away the pain of being.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home. The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: You can't recall someone whose name has worn away. You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only. But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: . . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . . . . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
Sebastian Faulks quotes: There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers. There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you. One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace. It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: There is only one life; it is therefore perfect. There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: If only I could have my time again. If only I could have my time again.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I'm not going to miss all this, am I? I'm not going to miss all this, am I?
Sebastian Faulks quotes: I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: You put your time where your priority is. You put your time where your priority is.
Sebastian Faulks quotes: There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved. There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.

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