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| fb14f8a | She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die. | iris-murdoch love painful pets tenderness the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 8a2c8de | And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life. | iris-murdoch life unbearable | Iris Murdoch | |
| 507f705 | I can't tell you--oh I can't tell you--how awful--how sort of unlivable--everything is now--like a great black wall in front of me--Something's got to smash. | change depression henry-and-cato iris-murdoch simile unbearable unlivable | Iris Murdoch | |
| 7a4b017 | I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint. | deep-breathing dissociation humor iris-murdoch panic-attack the-black-prince | Iris Murdoch | |
| 2f07ad3 | But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners. | comfortless grief iris-murdoch isolated the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 0f438df | Hasta cierto punto estoy de acuerdo contigo --dijo Rupert-- pero... --No hay "peros", querido amigo, Kant nos mostro de modo concluyente que no podemos conocer la realidad. Sin embargo, seguimos creyendo obstinadamente que si podemos. --!Kant creia que tenemos atisbos de ella! !Eso era precisamente en lo que insistia! --Kant era estupidamente cristiano. Y tambien nosotros lo somos, aunque lo neguemos. El cristianismo es una de las mas grand.. | cristiano humana kant raza realidad | Iris Murdoch | |
| 620cba0 | To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain? | iris-murdoch love the-sea-the-sea | Iris Murdoch | |
| db16a6c | I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has. | difference iris-murdoch lament life outsider the-black-prince unlucky | Iris Murdoch | |
| ace7549 | But I live, I , with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. | dejected despairing failure iris-murdoch low-self-esteem the-black-prince unrelenting | Iris Murdoch | |
| 5a2b9d2 | Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive. | grudge iris-murdoch loss-of-dignity the-black-prince unforgivable | Iris Murdoch | |
| 5a2b875 | She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature. | iris-murdoch the-message-to-the-planet wild wounded | Iris Murdoch | |
| 073aec2 | How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before. | iris-murdoch love selfless the-black-prince unrequited-love unspoken | Iris Murdoch | |
| 2ff31c8 | How could it be that I had actually kissed her cheek without enveloping her, without becoming her? How could I at that moment have refrained from kneeling at her feet and howling? | desire dramatic howling iris-murdoch kiss love passionate-love soul-mates the-black-prince | Iris Murdoch | |
| d2a31ee | You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's . | depression iris-murdoch madness misery the-green-knight | Iris Murdoch | |
| c1d47c0 | There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so--crucial. | abusive-household bad-times crucial formative-years good-times iris-murdoch the-sea-the-sea | Iris Murdoch | |
| f0518c2 | The unspoken words trembled in the air. | the-message-to-the-planet trembled unspoken | Iris Murdoch | |
| 2061f9a | He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes. | confession declaration-of-love dialogue embrace iris-murdoch tender the-green-knight unconditional-love | Iris Murdoch | |
| 31f0f02 | He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them. | intimate iris-murdoch pain tension the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 74035e9 | Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate. | doomed fate foreboding iris-murdoch premonition the-black-prince | Iris Murdoch | |
| 99bb922 | It was for me a moment of great peace. I did not know then that it was the last, the very last moment of peace, the end of the old innocent world, the final moment before I was plunged into the nightmare of which these ensuing pages tell the story. | foreshadowing iris-murdoch narrator nightmare peace | Iris Murdoch | |
| 1e592e9 | One can be too ingenious in trying to search out the truth. Sometimes one must simply respect its veiled face. Of course this is a love story. | ambiguity iris-murdoch love-story mysterious the-sea-the-sea truth unknowable | Iris Murdoch | |
| 5d08208 | Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man. | iris-murdoch love misfortune the-message-to-the-planet toxic-relationships | Iris Murdoch | |
| f128833 | Some people are just 'diminishers' and 'spoilers' for others. I suppose almost everybody diminishes someone. A saint would be nobody's spoiler. | the-black-prince toxic-people toxic-relationships | Iris Murdoch | |
| e74d8b4 | Tell her I was young once and star-bright Who am now invisible . . . | henry-and-cato invisible iris-murdoch poetry young | Iris Murdoch | |
| 4f4ad79 | Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there. | depression horror identity iris-murdoch life self-loathing the-black-prince trapped unhappy | Iris Murdoch | |
| 9707da8 | I adore your jealousy, especially when it's so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that. | humor iris-murdoch jealousy misplaced the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 3d65918 | I just hope -- if he does come -- it won't be some sort of horror show. | arrival foreshadowing horrifying horror horror-show iris-murdoch | Iris Murdoch | |
| 59fe39b | Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit. | in-vain iris-murdoch the-black-prince unheeded | Iris Murdoch | |
| e0d7d64 | He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him. | old-soul out-of-place out-of-time the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 38b41d8 | He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire. | endless-suffering iris-murdoch metaphor relentless suffering the-green-knight torture | Iris Murdoch | |
| e82208d | I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry. | inferiority iris-murdoch jealous not-wanted out-of-place outsider shame the-black-prince unspoken | Iris Murdoch | |
| cf79420 | Is your father writing a book?" said Alison. "No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists." | iris-murdoch living the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| 0a69862 | She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct. | destructive harmful iris-murdoch the-black-prince toxic toxic-people undermining | Iris Murdoch | |
| 1395e69 | The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments in Nature's company may suffice to renew one's health and mental aspect. | Stephanie Barron | ||
| 76fc6a5 | ESCORT CARRIERS HAD MANY nicknames, only a few tinged with anything resembling affection: jeep carriers, Woolworth flattops, Kaiser coffins, one-torpedo ships. Wags in the fleet deadpanned that the acronym CVE stood for the escort carrier's three most salient characteristics: combustible, vulnerable, expendable. That most everyone seemed to get the joke--laughing in that grim, nervous way--was probably the surest sign that it was rooted in .. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| 2068a44 | The portly Italian chief never talked much. Though he had played the royal baby at the crossing-the-line ceremony, he was the oldest man on the ship at forty-three and had little in common with boys twenty and more years his junior. Serafini was an immigrant from the Old Country whose Navy service dated to World War I. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he had left a well-paying job in the Philadelphia Navy Yard and reenlisted despite both exc.. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| be4b287 | The previous day, December 6, Sprague had upbraided his crew for their sloppy performance during an intensive series of drills. He broke with his nature and let them have it. Gathering his officers in the Tangier's wardroom, Sprague said, "We're not prepared. We can't trust the Japanese. How do you know the Japanese won't attack tomorrow?" The next morning the Combined Fleet struck." | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| 26f8d63 | Oldendorf's fleet would hold its position astride the northern end of the strait and devour Nishimura's column like a log thrust into the business end of a U.S. Navy wood chipper. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| de7fca2 | I have to tell you, Major, if we don't get these bombs and stop this Jap fleet, they're gonna come in here and bomb the hell out of this place and maybe recapture it. Then their planes will be dropping these bombs on you. I've gotta have these bombs, sir, or we'll have a disaster on our hands.' Lupo asked who the major's superior was. The Army officer mentioned a colonel who stationed out toward the front. 'He's out fighting a war, and I'm .. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| ba87cf2 | La culpa es como una sombra que solo tu puedes ver. Siempre esta ahi. Puede ahogarte. Es envolvente y resulta imposible huir de ella. | Alice Kellen | ||
| 759fff0 | By any measure the mathematics of the engagement were preposterously against them. The Yamato displaced nearly seventy thousand tons. She alone matched almost exactly in weight all thirteen ships of Taffy 3. Each of her three main gun turrets weighed more than an entire Fletcher-class destroyer. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| 4df548d | Archer kept his course toward the battleship. He opened his bomb bay doors for show, hoping to persuade the dreadnought to veer from its course. Then, as he began to pull up over the ship, Archer rolled his Avenger over on its back and took his .38-caliber service revolver from its holster. Running on anger born of pain and not a little adrenaline, he squeezed the trigger repeatedly, sending six rounds into the dark superstructure of the ba.. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| 45d5437 | To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong. | James D. Hornfischer | ||
| bb59c32 | Pero es que a veces, cuando una mirada lo dice todo, las palabras estan de mas. | Alice Kellen |