Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
IRIS MURDOCHHow different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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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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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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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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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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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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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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