If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
Sebastian FaulksThis is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
Sebastian FaulksI think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
Sebastian FaulksThe function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Sebastian FaulksFrom an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elseโs. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone elseโs, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.
Sebastian FaulksBusy 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 ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.
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