But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
IRIS MURDOCHAn experience is richest not talked of.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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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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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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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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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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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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