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«The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.»
Author: John Fowles
«That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.»
Author: John Fowles
«There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.»
«An answer is always a form of death.»
«Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.»
«We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words»
«Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.»
Author: John Fowles
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Religion
| Keywords:
adherent, adherents, biological, credible, explanations, historical, sympathy
«So I felt this burning summer. In form I mightbelong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of aravenous self-destroying horde of rats.I am glad there is no God. If there were,I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, andinsatiably self-centred creatures shouldbe allowed to survive a single day more»
Author: John Fowles
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centred, destroying, horde, hordes, insatiably, myopic, rampant, ravenous, self-centred
«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.»
«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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