Tim Winton - Breath (2008)

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Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

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We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

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It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

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I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

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I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

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And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

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It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

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