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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.Sebastian Faulks
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He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.Sebastian Faulks
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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. .Sebastian Faulks
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Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.Sebastian Faulks
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There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?"" No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries."" These are just the .. the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?" The man shook his head. "Just these fields." Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one told me. My God no one told me, .Sebastian Faulks