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.
IRIS MURDOCHHowever 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.
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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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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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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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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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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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