Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
IRIS MURDOCHI 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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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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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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.
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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 a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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