Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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But 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.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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