I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
IRIS MURDOCHArt and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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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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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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I just enjoy translating, it’s like opening one’s mouth and hearing someone else’s voice emerge.
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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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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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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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But 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.
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Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that’s why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that’s what I am experiencing right now.
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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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