A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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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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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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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 just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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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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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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