John Fowles - Daniel Martin (1977)

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I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

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There was a bright wind, it was a Dufy day, all bustle, movement, animated colour..

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Once again fear, and mystery, swept over me... I was infinitely far from home. The profoundest distances are never geographical...

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Her voice was completely English. For some reason I had expected a foreign accent; but I could place this exactly. It was my own; product of boarding school, university, the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand.

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There are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment, who can perform the most complex ethical calculations like an Indian peasant can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds. Lily was such a person. I craved her approval.

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I felt both a state of envy and contempt. The yacht itself was not vulgar, but I smelt something vulgar about owning it... A few moments later I set off back to my dull daily penal colony of an existence on the far side of the dream, as Adam left the Garden of Eden perhaps…except I knew there were no Gods, and nothing was going to bar my return...

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I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries, not their solution.

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She seemed older to me, over-experienced by travel; needing to be learnt again, and I hadn't the energy.

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All good science is art. And all good art is science.

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