Author of quotes: John Fowles

I grew up among people accustomed to hiding their feelings. And he was all out. Naked. Trembling with anger.

Once upon a time in the Russian language there was a capacious and tragic definition: loveless - unable to love, not knowing love.

Nowadays, one of the most common symptoms of wealth is all sorts of neuroses; and in that era serene boredom was its chief symptom.

Nobody wants to be nobody. All our actions are partly aimed at filling or masking the emptiness that we feel inside.

There was something real, feminine about her. Gentleness without tearfulness, openness without naivety. So I wanted to tell her barbs, to tease her. But her barbs were like a caress.

It's like I kindled a fire in the dark to warm both of us. And this fire only illuminated his true appearance.

A true gentleman has no right to deny the obvious.

The desire to retain and the desire to enjoy are both destructive.

The poor thing had to go through the suffering known from time immemorial to the only child in the family - a heavy, crushing canopy of parental care.

All lovers are weak in their minds, aren't they?

There was a touch of cynicism in his behavior, a sure sign of internal moral decay.

If the elbows have not worked, will not achieve anything.

... while most do not become sufficiently educated to get rid of the false notion of inferiority and minority, from equally erroneous idea that biological superiority is the norm of existence, and not the norm of responsibility than it really is, we will never have to live in a more just and happy world.

All my life I needed a woman. And all my life they didn't bring me but grief. And most of all - those whom I had the most to say, purest and most noble feelings.