“Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.”
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Describes the rise and fall of the metaphysician, Marcus Vallar, and the bewildered men and women surrounding him.
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Iris Murdoch
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“Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.”
“Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?”
“Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.”
“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”
“Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.”
“I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.”
“Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be differen...”