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.
IRIS MURDOCHPerhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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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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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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