Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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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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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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