That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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