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Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams.
– Iris Murdoch

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  1. Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch
  2. I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time. – Iris Murdoch
  3. Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
  4. Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
  5. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
  6. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch
  7. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
  8. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  9. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  10. He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. – Iris Murdoch
  11. I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
  12. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
  13. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
  14. It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch
  15. Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
  16. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. – Iris Murdoch
  17. But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch
  18. God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. – Walter de la Mare
  19. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  20. You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
  21. Who dreams so much, forgets to live – Yasmina Khadra
  22. Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop-”there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. – Christina Westover
  23. Do not give your most cherish dreams.Dreams are scriptures.Dreams are possibilities.Dreams always come true. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. I’ve never believed in living for the ones you love. I believe in the power of death, I’d die for the ones that I love. – Anna Van Breugel
  25. The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart’s memory but love itself? – Tan Twan Eng
  26. A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. – Janny Wurts
  27. Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn’t dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth. – Maggie Shipstead
  28. So many love affairs doesn’t survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other. – Amit Kalantri
  29. It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God – Edwin Abejero
  30. I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go? – Emily Murdoch
  31. Be the best you can be for yourself! – Susan Marie Murdoch
  32. I know so many words. It’s perplexing to come across so many I don’t. – Emily Murdoch
  33. My life’s a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits. – Emily Murdoch
  34. My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger. – Emily Murdoch
  35. @The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series. – Maureen Jennings
  36. SHIT, OR GET OFF THE POT – Rupert Murdoch
  37. Love the ones who understand you and forget the ones that don’t. – Nikki Rowe
  38. Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison. – Mackenzie Herbert
  39. They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him. – Iris Johansen
  40. It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance! – Iris Eshel

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