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• Science disembodies; art embodies.

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  Art

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

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  Nature, Attitude, Lying

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• You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

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  Knowing, United States, Prejudice

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

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  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

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  Men, Race, Self

  "The Magus".

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• You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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  Mean, Wish, One Day

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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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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  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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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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  Kings, Reality, Long

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

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  Nature, Moving, Tree

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• The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

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  Men, Stronger, Today

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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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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  Book, Hatred, Desire

  John Fowles (2005). “The Journals: 1949-1965”, Knopf

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• ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

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  Cynicism, Mask

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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  Depression, Mad, Mental Illness

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

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  Fixed, Plans, Accidents

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• There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

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  Hazards, Plans, Preserves

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

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  Years, Monsters, Months

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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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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  Beautiful, Nice, Thinking

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

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  World, Leisure

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN".

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• Death is the room that is always empty.

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  Rooms, Empty

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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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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  Hate, Jealous, Mean

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

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  Fiction, Path, Given

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• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

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  Nature, Stars, World

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

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  Men, Routine, Nightmare

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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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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  Character, Events

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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