As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, …”

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewher…”

“This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real bl…”

“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversatio…”