John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it... fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf – your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

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How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

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There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

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