I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
IRIS MURDOCH
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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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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