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.

John Fowles

Tags: beauty good bad ugliness



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Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?
What are you drinking? The water or the wave?

John Fowles


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We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.

John Fowles

Tags: life



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It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

John Fowles


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Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

John Fowles

Tags: nature death mind form matter



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I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.

John Fowles

Tags: the-magus



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All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.

John Fowles

Tags: the-french-lieutenant-s-woman



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The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

John Fowles

Tags: nature deforestation nature-of-man



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A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in the Virgen Mary's; it reversed the entire order of nature.

John Fowles


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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

John Fowles


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