“Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)”

— Iris Murdoch , Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 8, p. 119

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British writer and philosopher 1919–1999

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