Anything that consoles is fake.
IRIS MURDOCHThat doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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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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