Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
IRIS MURDOCHWe 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?
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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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.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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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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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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