Forgiving's forgetting.

John Fowles in The Magus (1965)
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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

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

John Fowles in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
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Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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

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

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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

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