28 Quotes by Iris Murdoch about metaphor
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Well, you won't abandon me, will you.""Don't be silly, Ludens, you are buckled to my heart.
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You can't go through the looking-glass without cutting yourself.
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I feel I'm living on pain, riding on it, like a sea.
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He had lived throughout upon magic, upon romantic love in its fullest sense, and this magic, now that she was gone, seemed sometimes likely to kill him.
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Human life is short, we don't exist all that much. A pale brief flicker in the dark.
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I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.
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She stood there awkwardly, incapable of further theatre.
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So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.
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Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.
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