It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden hal… - John Fowles

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It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

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John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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