More by John Fowles
There’s a card in the Tarot pack called The Magus. The magician, conjuror. Two of his traditional symbols are the lily and the rose.
The Magus (1965)
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.
The Magus (1965)
If you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
Daniel Martin (1977)
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
The Aristos (1964)
That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. But the smile.
The Magus (1965)
For a moment, in that dark Dorset night, reason and science dissolved; life was a dark machine, a sinister astrology, a verdict at birth and without appeal, a zero over all.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her.
The Ebony Tower (1974)
Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one's uniqueness, one falls in love with one's complexity.
Daniel Martin (1977)
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