I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
IRIS MURDOCHWe can only learn to love by loving.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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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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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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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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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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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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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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