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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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 pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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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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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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