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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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