Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
IRIS MURDOCHEvery book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Starting 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.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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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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