"The Magus" Quotes
A young Englishman becomes entangled in a psychological game on a Greek island with a mysterious and manipulative man.
fiction | 656 pages | Published in 1965
Quotes
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
It's the dead who govern. The living only obey.
The most important thing a man must learn is humility.
We are not free to be what we can be, until we are free not to be what we are.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
All that matters is a true bargain.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work.
We are all the spoils of our own violence.
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
