Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
IRIS MURDOCHPeople 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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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However 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.
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