"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
“Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.”
“Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.”
“Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity”
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.51, Penguin
“There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.”
“I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.”
“In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. Iâ€™m sure he will literally save lives.”

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