I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
IRIS MURDOCHHow huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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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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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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