But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
IRIS MURDOCHA bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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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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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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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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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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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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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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Anything that consoles is fake.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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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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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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