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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
For a moment, in that dark Dorset night, reason and science dissolved; life was a dark machine, a sinister astrology, a verdict at birth and without appeal, a zero over all.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
I am infinitely strange to myself.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Darwinism, as its shrewder opponents realized, let open the floodgates to something far more serious than the undermining of the Biblical account of the origins of man; its deepest implications lay in the direction of determinism and behaviourism, that is, towards philosophies that reduce morality to a hypocrisy and duty to a straw hut in a hurricane.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Sometimes I almost pity them [other women]. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame, can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing. I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)