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John Fowles, The Magus Quotes: The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
         

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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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.



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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.



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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.



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Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.



Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.



Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.



The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.



The world began in hazard and will end in it.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.



If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.





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