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“Hadet kan vi glemme. Aldrig kærligheden.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Man gjorde et barn fortræd

“... for meget mor, og for lidt menneske”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Man gjorde et barn fortræd

“You don’t respect me,’ said Dora, her voice trembling.
‘Of course I don’t respect you,’ said Paul. ‘Have I any reason to? I’m in love with you, unfortunately, that’s all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell

“To be good and gay was surely the highest of human destinies.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell

“Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell

“To grow old is to know that not circumstances but consciousness makes the happy and the sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“I got home and I thought I should stop leading so aimless an existence. It is harder than you might think to stop leading an existence, & if you can’t do that the only thing you can do is to introduce an element of purposefulness.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“Of all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these,
it might have been”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“… a clever man so seldom needs to think”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai