Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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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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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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