Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
IRIS MURDOCHLet us not waste love, it is rare enough.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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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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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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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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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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