I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by a… - John Fowles

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I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

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

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