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Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
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Sebastian Charles Faulks
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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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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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There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
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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.
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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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
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Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
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That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
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Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
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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 don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
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