Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
IRIS MURDOCHAnything that consoles is fake.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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 book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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