People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see tha… - John Fowles

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

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

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