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Category: John Fowles

When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends – using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world – she just laughed. ‘You like it,’ she said. ‘You say you’re isolated, boyo, but you really think you’re different.

different, friendlessness, isolation

It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

bonnard, capture, life, moments, painting

I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive.

attraction, sex

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.

becoming, being, self-acceptance

Now I understand why you grow so many flowers.”She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, “To cover the stink of sulphur.

facade, flowers

Some people would say- you’re only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn’t matter. But all the evil in the world’s made up of little drops. It’s silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

good-and-evil, inspirational

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

death, fabricate, fabrication, immortalities, immortality, life, starve

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

life, questions

A total stranger, and one not of one’s sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

judgment, prejudice, stranger

What you love is your own love. It’s not love, it’s selfishness. It’s not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

feel, love, selfish, selfishness

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

chance, fortune, hazards, luck

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care.

beast, beastly, care, cellar, cellars, decent, filthy, free, life, locked, people