Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
IRIS MURDOCHThere is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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’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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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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 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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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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