Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
IRIS MURDOCHOnly take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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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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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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