Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
IRIS MURDOCHOnly the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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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 don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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