Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
IRIS MURDOCHBereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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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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