Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
IRIS MURDOCHTime, like the sea, unties all knots.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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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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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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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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