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Zywa Dec 2024
Do I want to know

your suffering to get some --


idea what mine is?
Novel "The Unicorn" (1963, Iris Murdoch), part 7, chapter 35

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Dec 2024
I keep weighing up

what is good for me, do I --


want to know or not?
Philosophical study "Ignorance and Bliss - On Wanting Not to Know" (2024, Mark Lilla)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Dec 2024
Her glance has wounded

me deeply, it pierced my heart --


oh, arrow of love!
Air "Al vezzeggiar d'un volto" ("At the caress of a face"), from the opera "Farnace" ("Pharnaces II of Pontus", 1727, Antonio Lucchini, music Antonio Vivaldi, RV 711), 1st act, 9th scene - Selinda

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Dec 2024
No one cries or yearns

anymore, about love: look --


under Folklore.
Story "voor liefde: klik op F" ("for love: click F", 1998, Renate Dorrestein)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa Dec 2024
'You haven't changed at all!'

He laughs at his compliment --


that is a question.
Short story "Het was lekker, nu is het op" ("It was nice, now it's over", 2024,  Franca Treur), in the NRC of December 21st, 2024

Collection "Chance"
Zywa Dec 2024
Each and every love

can run its course, as long as --


there is a channel.
Play "A Severed Head" (1964, Iris Murdoch and John B. Priestley), based on the novel "A Severed Head" (1961, Iris Murdoch), 3rd act, 3rd scene

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Dec 2024
Praying is feeding

yourself with the energy --


that is everywhere.
Philosophical study "On 'God' and 'Good' " (1992, Iris Murdoch), published in: The Anatomy of Knowledge (1969), and collected in: "The Sovereignty of Good" (1970)

Collection "Unspoken"
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