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Iris Murdoch
“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch
“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.”
Iris Murdoch

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

Iris Murdoch
“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”
Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

Iris Murdoch
“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
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