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 FowlesTags: beauty good bad ugliness
Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?
What are you drinking? The water or the wave?
We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.
John FowlesTags: life
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 FowlesDeath is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.
John FowlesTags: nature death mind form matter
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 FowlesTags: the-magus
All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.
John FowlesTags: the-french-lieutenant-s-woman
The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.
John FowlesTags: nature deforestation nature-of-man
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 FowlesWhich are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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