All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond. . . flesh, … - Sebastian Faulks

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These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

Sebastian Faulks

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond. . . flesh, the moment of being alive. . . then nothing. I had searched in superstition. . . But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so. . . tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me. . . I saw that those simple things might be true. . . I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

Alive, Believe, Fighting, Lived, Simple, Superstition

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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?

Breathing, Eating, Interest, Moving, Substitute, Years

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

May, Moment, Months, Week, Year, Years

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.

Black, Depression, Locking, Malfunction, Mind, Years

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

Competitive, Lonely, Organisms, Resourceful, Struggle

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

Buried, Dead