Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
IRIS MURDOCHPerhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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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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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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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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