What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company … - Iris Murdoch

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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.

Iris Murdoch

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

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