My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of … - Sebastian Faulks

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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Sebastian Faulks

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

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If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not. . . What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

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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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Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

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

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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

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