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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

John Fowles

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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
Adulthood
Stage
Age
Knowledge
Self

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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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