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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams.”
“Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.”
“It had been his fate not to be interested in anything except everything.”
“I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs.”
“It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.”
“Time, like the sea, unties all knots.”
“I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.”
“Don't be hurt by me." "I can't help being hurt —”
“But her heart was hurting her with its violence.”
“He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.”
“How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”
“Sorrow can sometimes induce sleep.”
“. . . darkness was staining all the intricate channels of what had once seemed so perfect.”
“It was dark now. A thin moon was visible, a bright portent, but giving no light.”
“There is no light where I am. If any comes it is not enlightenment but lightning.”
“He thought about the future and it was a vibrating darkness. He felt fear.”
“Clement held her hand for a moment; knowing that after that moment the darkness would begin.”
“She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.”
“A childhood hatred, like a childhood love, can last a lifetime.”
“He is crammed full of rage and hate and desire for revenge.”
“What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”
