One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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The 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.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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