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.
IRIS MURDOCHWhat I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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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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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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