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the thought of having missed this last meeting due to my own fault tore at my heart with a burning and relentless sharpness. I almost screamed, so much did this steel blade, heated to white-hot, hurt as it penetrated me, ever more ...more
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Vladimir Nabokov
“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Iris Murdoch
“Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.”
Iris Murdoch

Vladimir Nabokov
“Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.”
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Iris Murdoch
“We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.”
Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

Vladimir Nabokov
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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