It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.
Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. - Sebastian Faulks
Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
- Sebastian Faulks
There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved. - Sebastian Faulks
There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.
Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us. - Sebastian Faulks
Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.
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… - Sebastian Faulks
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…
You put your time where your priority is. - Sebastian Faulks
You put your time where your priority is.
I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a… - Sebastian Faulks
I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a…
Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories an… - Sebastian Faulks
Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories an…
Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. - Sebastian Faulks
Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. - Sebastian Faulks
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
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