We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
IRIS MURDOCHWe need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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An experience is richest not talked of.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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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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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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