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“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“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.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“I am infinitely strange to myself.”

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: Charles to Sarah in Ch. 47, p. 340 note: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'
To live alone?'
To live. With what you are.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“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.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“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.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“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.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.

His fairy story.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector