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The Sea

The Sea
John Banville

The Sea is a 2005 novel by John Banville. His fifteenth book , it won the 2005 Booker Prize.

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“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea

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“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea (2005, ISBN 0-330-48328-5.

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“Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea

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