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.
IRIS MURDOCHIn philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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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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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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