What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
IRIS MURDOCHBut 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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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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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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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