"The craving to risk death is our last……" — John Fowles
"The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?"
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
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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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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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More Craving Quotes
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
— Bill Bryson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to…
— Kelly Clarkson
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
— H.G. Wells
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows…
— William James
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we…
— Andrew Weil
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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality…
— Og Mandino
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