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.
IRIS MURDOCHHow 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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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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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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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.
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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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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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