An experience is richest not talked of.
IRIS MURDOCH
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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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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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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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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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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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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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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