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The Outsider cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else's necessary. He sees 'too deep and too much'. It is still a question of self-expression.

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What so impressed me on that first reading was the self-containedness of Tolkien's world. I suppose there are a few novelists who have created worlds that are uniquely their own — Faulkner, for example, or Dickens. But since their world is fairly close to the actual world, it cannot really be called a unique creation. The only parallel that occurs to me is the Wagner Ring cycle, that one can only enter as if taking a holiday on a strange planet.

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

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The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

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Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

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Born: June 26, 1931

Died: December 5, 2013 (aged 82)

Bio: Colin Henry Wilson was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal.

Known for:

The Outsider (1956)
The Occult: A History (1971)
The Mind Parasites (1967)
Ritual in the dark (1960)
The Space Vampires (1976)

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