What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
IRIS MURDOCHIn philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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