"If at the one moment in your life……" — Sebastian Faulks

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of… - Sebastian Faulks

"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?"

— Sebastian Faulks

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