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.
IRIS MURDOCH
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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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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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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