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„Свобода воли напрямую связана со свободой условий жизни.“

„Все мы неудачники; все мы умрём.“

„Бунтарю, который не обладает даром бунтаря от природы, уготована судьба трутня.“

„Зрелость — это не годы, а состояние познания самого себя.“

„Обычно в наших мыслях о собственной смерти нет ничего болезненного; напротив, это один из самых простых способов убедиться в том, что мы живы.“

„Функция смерти заключается в том, чтобы сделать жизнь напряжённее.“

„Я настоящий бездельник. Оправдываю свое безделье перед своим умом.“

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”

Джон Роберт Фаулз: Цитаты на английском языке

“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.

His fairy story.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”

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

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.”

“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

“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.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“The best wines take the longest to mature.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“… all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. Therebe a God and heknow anything about us.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“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.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector