Sebastian Faulks Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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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