That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
IRIS MURDOCHEvery book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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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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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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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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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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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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