QUOTES by Iris Murdoch
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"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better."
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"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."
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"Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is."
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"Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story."
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"The bicycle is the "most "civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too."
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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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"One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own."
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"The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations."
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"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?"
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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