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.
IRIS MURDOCHI felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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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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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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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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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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 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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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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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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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