People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
IRIS MURDOCH
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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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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What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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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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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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