Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCHGuilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
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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 felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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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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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 feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
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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’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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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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