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761e11c
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I hate beyond hate.
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hate
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John Fowles |
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if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time so calmly aristocratic that I should never be able to approach her.
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John Fowles |
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Pero ya entonces me parecia muy lejana, aunque no en la distancia ni en el tiempo, sino en alguna dimension para la que no tenemos nombre. En la realidad, quizas.
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John Fowles |
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Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.
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fun
game
games
girl
island
locked
locked-up
mysterious
mystery
think
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John Fowles |
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1a94b26
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.
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banished
banishment
be
cherish
illusion
liking
live
people
society
wish
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John Fowles |
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b6f3c2d
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I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant.
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John Fowles |
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cd04815
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Mne dvadtsat' tri. A tebe? - Dvadtsat' piat'. - Razve ty ne chuvstvuesh', kak v tebe chto-to skhvatyvaetsia? I uzhe nikogda ne izmenitsia? Ia chuvstvuiu. Do skonchaniia veka budu avstraliiskoi razziavoi.
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John Fowles |
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Love is the mistery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering, at the mercy of social ideals. Humanity both crucified and marching towards the cross. And I was free, I was Peter three times to renounce -- determined to survive, whatever the cost.
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humanity
love
opposites
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John Fowles |
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842b28f
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We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.
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inspirational
john-fowles
lazy
older
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John Fowles |
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4539913
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Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.
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John Fowles |
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive, but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead. I felt it terribly strongly today. That my being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods and all that was becoming a nuisance. He is solid; immovabile, iron-wi..
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death
hate
life
prison
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John Fowles |
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d324837
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Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.
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John Fowles |
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Ne considera, pe mine si pe fete, imaturi si naivi, dar noi ne puteam dovedi de zece ori mai perfizi decat el, tocmai pentru ca eram englezi - nascuti pentru a purta masca si educati de mici sa mintim.
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John Fowles |
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A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.
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prejudice
stranger
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John Fowles |
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c67d21c
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Now I understand why you grow so many flowers." She shifted her head, not understanding. I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."
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flowers
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John Fowles |
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f60cb6b
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Un raspuns este intotdeauna o forma a mortii" - Eu cred ca intrebarile sunt o forma a vietii."
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John Fowles |
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No on nastol'ko ordinaren, chto eto delaet ego neordinarnym.
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John Fowles |
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nel'zia, odin raz neudachno metnuv kosti, vybyvat' iz igry; chto zhizn' nuzhno - iz poslednikh sil, s opustoshennoi dushoi i bez nadezhdy utselet' v zheleznom serdtse goroda - preterpevat'. I snova vykhodit' - v slepoi, solenyi, temnyi okean.
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John Fowles |
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21c0758
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Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile.
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John Fowles |
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dd82a6b
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Charles did not know it, but in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous evening silence broken only by the waves' quiet wash, the whole Victorian Age was lost. And I do not mean he had taken the wrong path.
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John Fowles |
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The thin end of the sensible clothes wedge had been inserted in society by the disgraceful Mrs Bloomer a decade and a half before the year of which I write; but that early attempt at the trouser suit had been comprehensively defeated by the crinoline--a small fact of considerable significance in our understanding of the Victorians. They were offered sense; and chose a six-foot folly unparalleled in the most folly-ridden of minor arts.
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John Fowles |
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Even the simplest knowledge of the names and habits of flowers or trees starts this distinguishing or individuating process, and removes us a step from total reality towards anthropocentrism.
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John Fowles |
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He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces.
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John Fowles |
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If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.
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John Fowles |
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Ia mog by vliubit'sia v neio po ushi i stal by nevynosimo trebovatel'nym, pred'iavliaia na neio sobstvennye prava; no ia slishkom chasto greshil etim prezhde, chtoby ne znat', chto stremlenie lishit' partniora nezavisimosti priamym putiom vediot k bede. Zhelanie obladat' tesno sviazano s zhelaniem izmenit', peredelat'; a ona ochen' nravilas' mne takoi, kakoi byla. Tak zhe kak fraza <> chasto oznachaet prosto <
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religion
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John Fowles |
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ob amerikantsakh] -- Ia ponimaiu, oni -- turisty, ne otlichaiushchiesia ochen' uzh razvitym voobrazheniem. Vspominaiu, kak uchilas' tam v shkole. Rebiata tam kazalis' mne gorazdo bolee otkrytymi, po krainei mere v tom, chto kasalos' lichnykh pristrastii. Vsegda rasskazyvali, chto chuvstvuiut. -- Da delo vovse ne v tom, chto oni ob etom ne rasskazyvaiut. -- A v tom, chto nedostatochno chuvstvuiut? -- Da i ne v etom tozhe. Nedostatochno znaiu..
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sex
uk
usa
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John Fowles |
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He had not the benefit of existentialist terminology; but what he felt was a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom - that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free is a situation of terror
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John Fowles |
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But suddenly he comprehended why her face haunted him, why he felt this terrible need to see her again: it was to possess her, to melt into her, to burn, to burn, to burn to ashes on that body and in those eyes. To postpone such a desire for a week, a month, a year, several years even, that can be done. But for eternity is when the iron bites.
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John Fowles |
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M. I've never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She's always been my mother I've hated or been ashamed of. Yet of all the lame ducks I've met or heard of, she's the lamest. I've never given her enough sympathy. I haven't given her this last year (since I left home) one half of the consideration I've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week. I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now. Because I ha..
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mothers-and-daughters
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John Fowles |
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364a483
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Vozmozhno, ia prosto dovol'no khorosho ego uznala. Znanie podnogotnoi avtomaticheski sblizhaet. Dazhe esli vam khochetsia, chtoby etot chelovek nakhodilsia kak mozhno dal'she, zhelatel'no - na drugoi planete.
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John Fowles |
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The rival you both share is myself. I do not wish to marry ... First, because my past habituated me to loneliness. I had always thought I hated it. And now I have found I treasure it. I do not want to share my life. I wish to be what I am, not what a husband must expect me to become in marriage. My second reason is my present. I never expected to be happy in life. Yet I find myself happy where I am situated now. I have varied congenial work..
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John Fowles |
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His name was Captain Montague. He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then. A kind of phosphorescent pale elegance about his face. A delicate, gallant moustache. He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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John Fowles |
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89dd2b0
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In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I
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John Fowles |
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a0d5515
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I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From everything I want to be.
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John Fowles |
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cf43d74
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Aqui en la frontera, caen las hojas. Aunque mis vecinos son todos barbaros, y tu, tu estas a mil kilometros de aqui, siempre hay dos tazas en mi mesa.
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John Fowles |
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03cf060
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Ni panteizma, ni gumanizma. No nechto gorazdo bolee ob'emnoe, bezrazlichnoe i nepostizhimoe. Eta real'nost' prebyvala v vechnom vzaimodeistvii. Ne dobro i ne zlo; ne krasota i ne bezobrazie. Ni vlecheniia ni nepriiazni. Tol'ko vzaimodeistvie.
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universe
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John Fowles |
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35a6732
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I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.
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money
poverty
soul
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John Fowles |
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d2c965b
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If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.
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london
rome
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John Fowles |
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8f43543
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It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different. Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans.
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death
isolation
war
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John Fowles |
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a1166e0
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The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it was a commonplace of domestic life.
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John Fowles |
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92de850
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German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion - entirely appropriate.
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John Fowles |
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9349ad2
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The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.
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dupe
fool
wisdom
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John Fowles |
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f355f76
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That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.
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pride
war
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John Fowles |
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530aba6
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I happily forgot his little collection of crimped and cramped fruit trees in my own new world, my America of endless natural ones in Devon.
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John Fowles |