"Women are Protean beings – one should always fight. You must tire the woman out, then you will see what she is."

"Women are like fish – sleek mermaids."

"These three o’clock awakenings when one starts up, imagining that one has a mortal sickness; and indeed this is true, life is that sickness, and at that hour one can realize it. "

"There’s nothing like a woman’s doing you an injury for making her incensed against you. "

"‘Jake’, she said, ‘you must leave me alone for a while. I have a lot of things to think about’.

‘So have I’, I said. ‘We might think together.’ "



Iris Murdoch



"Perfection of the world is not only in unity of diversity but also in diversity of unity."

"I am God, the same old loneliness, same ambition and despair for not being one of my own creatures - like everybody else. "

"The main point in everything is to understand the roots of its senselessness. "

"There's no need to wish, enough to be ready. "



Umberto Eco