We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
IRIS MURDOCHWe can only learn to love by loving.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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