Ashley Lamont

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Ashley’s Quotes

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”
― Iris Murdoch

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“The night is huge and it hurts.”
― Max Porter, Shy

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“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

tags: intimacy, solitude

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“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
― Iris Murdoch

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“They try and figure each other out, because there's fuck-all else to do. They each carry a private register of who is genuinely not OK, who is liable to go psycho, who is hard, who is a pussy, who is actually alright, and friendship seeps into the gaps of these false registers in unexpected ways, just as hatred does, just as terrible loneliness does.”
― Max Porter, Shy

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