The Magus by John Fowles
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself
There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'
To live alone?'
To live. With what you are.
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me
It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice