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81 " I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy. "
― Iris Murdoch , The Black Prince
82 " When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway. "
83 " Of course I love Arnold, but I can hate him too, and it can go along with love that one never forgives certain things. "
84 " The morning brought the crisis of my life. But it was not anything that I could have conceived of in my wildest imaginings. "
85 " What emotion had so invaded me? Fear? It is sometimes curiously difficult to name the emotion from which one suffers. The naming of it is sometimes unimportant, sometimes crucial. "
86 " Or did I know by intuition that wonderful and terrible things were really imminent at last, trembling into being just behind the curtain of the future? "
87 " I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy. "
88 " It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it?""You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all. "
89 " There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind. "
90 " But there are times of suffering which remain in our lives like black absolutes and are not blotted out. Fortunate are those for whom these black stars shed some sort of light. "
91 " Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at. "
92 " I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head. "
93 " Perhaps in the end the suffering is all, it's all contained in the suffering. The final atoms of it all are simply pain. "
94 " I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more. "
95 " Anyway people never fall in love suddenly like that except in novels. "
96 " I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless. "
97 " Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing. "
98 " One can't stop people from killing themselves if they're determined to. It may even be wrong to do so. "
99 " That this world is a place of horror must affect every serious artist and thinker, darkening his reflection, ruining his system, sometimes actually driving him mad. Any seriousness avoids this fact at its peril, and the great ones who have seemed to neglect it have only done so in appearance. "
100 " But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony. "