Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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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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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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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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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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