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" "… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have no moral purpose, no real sense of duty to anything. It seems only a few months ago that I was twenty-one – full of hopes … all disappointed.
John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.
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