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Things Quotes by John Fowles
- All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
- 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,…
- I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even…
- The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still,…
- We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not…
- I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I…
- People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no…
- I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things. Theres not even…
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle