The battle was over. Our causalities were some thirteen thousand killed. Thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes- because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
John FowlesTags: the-magus
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.
John FowlesYou wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.
John FowlesI must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
John FowlesTags: fight weapons shame selfishness resentment brutality john collector fowles
When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.
John FowlesTags: different isolation friendlessness
I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.
John FowlesTags: reading existence movies
I needed a new mystery.
John FowlesTags: mystery dissatisfaction
Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.
John FowlesTags: real-world-versus-words
Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.
John FowlesTags: poetry
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.
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