I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
IRIS MURDOCHLet us not waste love, it is rare enough.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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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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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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