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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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