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  1. Sebastian Faulks _ Charlotte Gray

    she had discovered that ageing and what they called "maturity" were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one by one.
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  2. Sebastian Faulks _ Charlotte Gray

    But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body."
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  3. Sebastian Faulks _ Charlotte Gray

    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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  4. Sebastian Faulks _ Charlotte Gray

    Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
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