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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.
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 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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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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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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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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