Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
IRIS MURDOCHTime, like the sea, unties all knots.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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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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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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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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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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