Youth is a marvelous garment.
IRIS MURDOCHI feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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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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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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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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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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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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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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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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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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