Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
IRIS MURDOCHLet us not waste love, it is rare enough.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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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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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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