We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
IRIS MURDOCHWe need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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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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We 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?
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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