Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
IRIS MURDOCH
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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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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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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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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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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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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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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