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.
IRIS MURDOCHThe 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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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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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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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