Quotes from John Fowles

there were times i thought i would forget her. but forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. only it didn't happen to me

dragostea rezult? mai ales din aptitudinea de a iubi, existent? în noi înÈ™ine, È™i nu neap?rat din faptul c? partenerul are reale calit??i pentru a fi iubit.

Oricum, de cum m-am trezit din somn am început s? am idei mai rezonabile. AÈ™a sunt eu: seara la culcare nu v?d decât partea neagr? a lucrurilor È™i m? trezesc cu idei diferite dimineaÈ›a.

La sfârÈ™it, am t?cut amândoi. Trebuie s? fi înÈ›eles. Dragostea este misterul între doi oameni, nu asem?narea dintre ei.

Of course I looked sad. But I didn't really feel sad. Or it wasn't a sadness that hurt, not an all-through one. I rather enjoyed it. Beastly, but I did. I sang on the way home. The romance, the mystery of it. Living.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope—an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Visitors to Lyme in the nineteenth century, if they did not quite have to undergo the ordeal facing travellers to the ancient Greek colonies -Charles did not actually have to deliver a Periclean oration plus comprehensive world news summary from the steps of the Town Hall- were certainly expected to allow themselves to be examined and spoken to.

Cel care creeaz? nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critic?. Exist? o diferen?? prea mare între cele dou? activit??i. Una este naÈ™tere, cealalt? chirurgie.

Oricine poate concepe un plan nou pentru o lume mai raÈ›ional?. În zece minute, în cinci minute. S? le ceri îns? oamenilor s? tr?iasc? raÈ›ional ar fi ca È™i cum le-ai cere s? tr?iasc? cu calmante.

Accepting the sadness. Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery. Treachery to everyone sad at the moment, everyone ever sad, treachery to such music, such truth.

PoÈ›i accepta f?r? s? ierÈ›i, dup? cum poÈ›i lua o hot?râre f?r? s-o pui neap?rat în aplicare.

Aveam dou?zeci È™i cinci de ani, vârsta ta, Nicholas, asta-È›i poate spune mai mult decât orice cât eram de incapabil s?-l judec. Cred c? este vârsta cea mai dificil? È™i enervant?. Înseamn? a fi È™i a observa totodat?. EÈ™ti inteligent È™i considerat om în toat? firea. Unii te reduc la starea de adolescen??, pentru c? numai experienÈ›a poate s? înÈ›eleag? È™i s? asimileze.

Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization

The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library.

O s?-mi r?spunzi: "Pentru c? existau copii care mureau de foame în vreme ce tu cântai în soare". Ar trebui deci s? nu mai avem palate, s? nu mai avem gusturi rafinate, bucurii de tot felul, s? nu mai d?m curs imaginaÈ›iei. Lumea trebuie s? aib? un scop ascendent c?tre bucurii mai înalte, fericire mai mult? pentru membrii societ??ii.

He is ugliness. But you can't smash human ugliness.

Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result.

Exist? trei feluri de oameni inteligenÈ›i: unii atât de inteligenÈ›i, încât consider? de la sine înÈ›eles s? li se spun? asta, cei din a doua categorie sunt suficient de inteligenÈ›i s?-È™i dea seama c? sunt flataÈ›i, nu descriÈ™i È™i cei din a treia, care sunt atât de puÈ›in inteligenÈ›i încât nu înÈ›eleg nimic.

One of the commonest symptoms of wealth today is destructive neurosis; in his century it was tranquil boredom

Mediocritatea este plaga civilizatiei. Dar mediocritatea il face atat de comun, incat devine iesit din comun.

Cu cat intelegi mai mult libertatea, cu atat o pierzi mai mult.

I had the same feeling I did when I had watched an imago emerge, and then to have to kill it. I mean, the beauty confuses you, you don't know what you want to do any more, what you should do.

M. How do you think Christianity started? Or anything else? With a little group of people who didn't give up hope.