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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

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  Order, Opposites, Rose

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

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• No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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  Reading, Intelligent, Experience

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• Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

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  Evil, Pot, Duty

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

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  Wise, Animal, Past

  1965 The Magus, ch.24.

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• Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

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  Life, Attitude, Equality

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• The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

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  Men, Civilization, Ordinary

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

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  Wonderland, Being True, Felt

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

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

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  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

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  Comforting, Abhorrent, News

  1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

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  Men, Tree, Sailor

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• Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

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

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