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.
IRIS MURDOCHI don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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I 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.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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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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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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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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