This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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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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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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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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Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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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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