Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
IRIS MURDOCHLove is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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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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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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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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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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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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