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"Saturday" Quotes

A successful neurosurgeon's life is disrupted by a violent encounter, forcing him to confront his own values and beliefs.

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All his life he had been reassured that his fate was different, that he was exempt from the human condition.

Ian McEwan

fateself-delusion

The body is a battlefield.

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bodystruggle

But the war was over, the battle won, and there was no more fight left in her.

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warresilience

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

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memoryheart

A life of ease can be a powerful sedative.

Ian McEwan

comfortsedative

Existence was less and less real. The house was a dream, the street was fiction.

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realityexistence

The consciousness of the truth about her life, the consciousness of being no longer young, obscured everything else.

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truthaging

The truth is, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs.

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lonelinessemotions

He discovered that he had a capacity for rage that was beyond anything he had known.

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ragediscovery

The past was a prison, the present a foreign country.

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pastpresent