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161 " Shall I come too?" said Francis. "I might be useful. After all, I am still a doctor in the eyes of God. "
― Iris Murdoch , The Black Prince
162 " Of course, my dear, I cannot, how could I, altogether regret what has happened. "
163 " All chances of happiness are gone from me. Just being with myself is hell all the time anyway. "
164 " What dangerous machines letters are. Perhaps it is as well that they are going out of fashion. A letter can be endlessly reread and reinterpreted, it stirs imagination and fantasy, it persists, it is red-hot evidence. It was a long time since I had received anything resembling a love letter. "
165 " The room, the wall, trembled with precision, as if the inanimate world were about to utter a word. "
166 " Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering. "
167 " The presence of the loved one is perhaps always accompanied by anxiety. Mortals must tremble, where angels might enjoy. But this one grain of darkness cannot be accounted a blemish. It graces the present moment with a kind of violence which makes an ecstasy of time. "
168 " I am really in love and it's a terrible experience. "
169 " Coming events do cast shadows. "
170 " And could it be true without other awful things being true as well? "
171 " Bradley, I wish I’d understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet.""Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he’s so divine but because he’s so human. Even great art is jumble in the end.""So the critics are just stupid?""It needs no theory to tell us this! One should simply try to like as much as one can. "
172 " -(…) Μερικές φορές αρχίζει να μου λέει πως με μισεί, με μισεί…-Όλοι οι παντρεμένοι το ψιθυρίζουν αυτό ο ένας στον άλλο όλη την ώρα. Αυτή είναι η θεμελιώδης λιτανεία του έγγαμου βίου. "
173 " -(…) Νομίζει πως είναι κατά κάποιο τρόπο μοναδική και διαπιστώνει τώρα πως δεν έχει κανένα ιδιαίτερο ταλέντο.-Αυτό μοιάζει χαρακτηριστικά με την ανθρώπινη μοίρα. "
174 " Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other. "
175 " A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance. "
176 " All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. "
177 " Onurunuzu kaybetmenize sebep olan insanları kolay affedemiyorsunuz. "
178 " Even as I write these words, which should be lucid and filled with glowing colour, I feel the very darkness of my own personality invading my pen. Only perhaps in the ink of this darkness can this writing properly be written? It is not really possible to write like an angel, though some of our near-gods by heaven-inspired trickery sometimes seem to do it. "
179 " How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius. "
180 " I tasted injustice and the special horror of seeing its perpetrators flourish. How frequent and how bitter is this aspect of human wretchedness. The wicked prosper in front of our eyes and go on and on and on prospering. What a blessing it must have been once to be able to believe in hell. A great and deep human consolation was lost to us when that ancient and respectable belief faded from our minds. "