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Bruno's Dream QUOTES

Bruno's Dream QUOTES

1 " Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

2 " You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

3 " If I see her she may kill hope. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

4 " He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

5 " He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

6 " Perhaps the crime was that of letting himself be loved so much more than he loved. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

7 " She has somehow missed the bus of life. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

8 " How absolute the knave is! "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

9 " Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

10 " but it was love in an inferno: that terrible relentless withholding of forgiveness. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

11 " If only he could be loved by somebody new. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

12 " It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

13 " All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

14 " Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there? "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

15 " But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

16 " Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn’t. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

17 " But, and especially with Linda’s help, he had decided that, like most other people, he was not made for reality. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

18 " He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

19 " Why does one never see dead birds? How can they all hide to die? "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream

20 " Time had never been visible to him before. "

― Iris Murdoch , Bruno's Dream