Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
IRIS MURDOCHOnly the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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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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An experience is richest not talked of.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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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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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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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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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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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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