Anything that consoles is fake.
IRIS MURDOCHThis sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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We 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.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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