Youth is a marvelous garment.
IRIS MURDOCHI feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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