I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.
タグ: understanding, the-black-prince, setting-limits, relationships, loyalty, loner, iris-murdoch, discerning, boundaries

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
タグ: made, holy, anything, being
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
タグ: substitute, comfort, relationship
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
タグ: joy, people, time, nature
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
タグ: pace, philosophy, moving, you
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
タグ: important, think, woman, you
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