We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCH
What 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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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 are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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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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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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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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