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

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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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About John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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Alternative Names: John Robert Fowles
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She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the afternoon, before we left the wood, and with a solemnity and sincerity, a complete dedication of herself that I cannot describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery...she said, Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you.

There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

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