One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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