He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

John Fowles

Tags: confidence charm integration charisma



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I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.

John Fowles

Tags: past nature solitude living-in-the-past



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And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

John Fowles

Tags: youth discovery enlightenment coming-of-age



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It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

John Fowles

Tags: life moments capture painting bonnard



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Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.

John Fowles

Tags: disbelief disproof



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… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have no moral purpose, no real sense of duty to anything. It seems only a few months ago that I was twenty-one – full of hopes … all disappointed.

John Fowles


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In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

John Fowles

Tags: love sex modernity



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

John Fowles


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If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

John Fowles


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ليست المسألة هى أننا لا نؤمن وانما هى أننا لا نستطيع أن نؤمن

John Fowles


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