28 Quotes by Iris Murdoch about metaphor
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I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.
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I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.
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Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.
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I had the illusion of conversing with a fellow being without a barrier, without a steel door, without a black hood over my head . . . I have never, I think, impressed upon you how almost impossible I find it to communicate with anybody.
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He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.
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These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.
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Oh why is she going away just when I want so much to be with her! She is the answer to the riddle of my life.
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I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.
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Louise was a jewel locked away; and after the first 'if only' period had passed and Clement had got used to 'Mrs Anderson', he felt that his love for her had not faded, but had suffered a sea change into something special and unique, causing a special and unique and much valued, pain.
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