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?
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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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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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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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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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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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Youth is a marvelous garment.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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