Youth is a marvelous garment.
IRIS MURDOCHAn experience is richest not talked of.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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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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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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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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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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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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