# Quote — John Fowles, Daniel Martin

> All the time I felt I was being watched, that I was not alone, that I was putting on an act for the benefit of someone, that this action could be done only if it was spontaneous, pure – and moral. Because more and more it crept through my mind with the chill spring night that I was trying to commit not a moral action, but a fundamentally aesthetic one; to do something that would end my life sensationally, significantly, consistently. It was a Mercutio death I was looking for, not a real one. A death to be remembered, not the true death of a true suicide, the death obliterate.

- Author: [John Fowles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles.md)
- Book: [Daniel Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/all-the-time

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