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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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