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John Fowles

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

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

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

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The profoundest distances are never geographical.

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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. " They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor. " He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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