People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
IRIS MURDOCHCoffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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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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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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