Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
IRIS MURDOCHI felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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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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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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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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