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  1. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite."
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  2. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.
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  3. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    ... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
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  4. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.
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  5. Iris Murdoch _ The Sea, The Sea

    Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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