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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

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
Two
Love
People
Identity
Mystery

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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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