This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
IRIS MURDOCHStarting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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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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.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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An experience is richest not talked of.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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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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