We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCHWhat I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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