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• To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

  John Fowles

  Suicide, Writing, Contradictory

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

  John Fowles

  Self, Ruins

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

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• Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

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  Art, Use, Faces

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

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• Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

  John Fowles

  War, Numbers, People

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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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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  Life, Heart, Copying

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

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• Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

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  Envy, Poor

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• Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

  John Fowles

  Angel, Clouds, Glasses

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• I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

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  Fighting, Selfishness, Brutality

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

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• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

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  Real, Two, Novelists

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

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

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• The best wines take the longest to mature.

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  Wine, Mature, Best Wine

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

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• He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

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  Space, Hatred, Empty

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

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  Atheist, Intelligent, Coward

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

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• Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

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  Art, Murder, Window

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

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• Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

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  Forget, Happens

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

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• Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

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  Will You Marry Me, Marry Me, Ask Me

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

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• It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

  John Fowles

  Life, Men, Perfectly Normal

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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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  Goes On, Want, Diseased

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

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  God, Religious, Prayer

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.223, Random House

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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  Corny, Pretending, Duty

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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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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  Men, Ideas, Wife

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

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• The world began in hazard and will end in it.

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  Hazards, World, Ends

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

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• The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Cost, Privilege

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• They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

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

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• To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Effort, Despise

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

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