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  1. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
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  2. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived. Although people complain of it - another year gone, where did that one go? - tacitly, they're proud. Otherwise they wouldn't do it: you put your time where your priority is.
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  3. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that.
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  4. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.''Where?''Genesis, Chapter Three. The covering of nakedness. The acquisition of shame was the first consequence of consciousness, of the speciating moment. Take shame from me and you are calling me pre-human.
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  5. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.
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  6. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I never end up here, either.
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  7. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.
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  8. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.
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  9. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    The more I heard, the less I knew.
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  10. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    The more you're challenged, the more rigidly you assert your beliefs. You have nothing to lose because without your beliefs you're nothing anyway: they make you what you are. It's shit or bust.
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  11. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.
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  12. Sebastian Faulks _ Engleby

    There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived.
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