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.
IRIS MURDOCHThere is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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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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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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