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Science disembodies art embodies.

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Art
Embodies
Science

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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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