I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had… - John Fowles

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I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had been and remained, intensely depressed, but I had also been, and always would be, intensely false; in existentialist terms, inauthentic. I knew I would never kill myself, I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

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

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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

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