I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
IRIS MURDOCH
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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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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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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
IRIS MURDOCH