There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
IRIS MURDOCH
Only 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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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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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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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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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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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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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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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