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.
IRIS MURDOCHBut one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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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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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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