"People knew less of each other, and so……" — John Fowles
"People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now."
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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