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Iris Murdoch _ The Message to the Planet
You talk of freedom - I've never had it! I've been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!"
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Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea
If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite."
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Iris Murdoch _ The Green Knight
Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows."
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Iris Murdoch _ The Black Prince
I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . ."
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