There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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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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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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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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