Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
IRIS MURDOCHPeople have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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