6 Quotes by Iris Murdoch about elusive
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Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.
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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.
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How can one discover what he feels?""I thought he might perhaps behave — quite differently with you?""No, no. We seem to know each other well but I think that's just because I parade my feelings. He's affectionate, detached, passive, absolutely passive.""He's never told you about that place?""He's never talked about himself at all.
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Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be different — but somehow maddeningly were not.
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Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?
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Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?
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