Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCHI 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.
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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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 just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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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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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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