Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
IRIS MURDOCHI feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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