Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
IRIS MURDOCHEvery artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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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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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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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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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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