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Famous John Fowles Quotes
“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”
“Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.”
“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”
“They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”
“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”
“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”
“...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”
“The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.”
“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”
“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”
“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”
“The best wines take the longest to mature.”
“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”
“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”
“Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.”