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• The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

  John Fowles

  Men, Race, Self

  "The Magus".

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• I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

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  Kings, Reality, Long

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

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  Nature, Attitude, Lying

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• I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

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  Hate, Jealous, Mean

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

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  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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• You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

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  Knowing, United States, Prejudice

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

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  Nature, Moving, Tree

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• My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

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  Book, Hatred, Desire

  John Fowles (2005). “The Journals: 1949-1965”, Knopf

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• You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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  Mean, Wish, One Day

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

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  Atheist, Intelligent, Coward

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

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  Effort, Despise

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

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  Art, Murder, Window

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Death is the room that is always empty.

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  Rooms, Empty

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

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  Cynicism, Mask

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• The 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.

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  Men, Stronger, Today

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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  Depression, Mad, Mental Illness

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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  Writing, Reading Poetry, Poetry

  1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.19.

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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  Corny, Pretending, Duty

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

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  Love Is, Two, People

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

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  Fixed, Plans, Accidents

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• 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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  Years, Monsters, Months

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Thinking

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN".

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• There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

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  World, Leisure

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

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  Drinking, Water, Excellence

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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