He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it.
John FowlesTag: happiness rich unhappiness
– Мне двадцать три. А тебе?
– Двадцать пять.
– Разве ты не чувствуешь, как в тебе что-то схватывается? И уже никогда не изменится? Я чувствую. До скончания века буду австралийской раззявой.
– Ух какой громадный, – пробормотала она.
John FowlesTag: sex
– Ум и глупость друг друга не исключают. Особенно у мужчины вашего возраста.
John FowlesYet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad. People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now.
John FowlesWe can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
John FowlesI am infinitely strange to myself.
John FowlesIt came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.
John FowlesThe power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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