That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
IRIS MURDOCHWe 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?
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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How 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.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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An experience is richest not talked of.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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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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Anything that consoles is fake.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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