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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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