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Iris Murdoch quotes: For most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. For most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
Iris Murdoch quotes: I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
Iris Murdoch quotes: An experience is richest not talked of. An experience is richest not talked of.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch quotes: Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch quotes: I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch quotes: 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. 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.
Iris Murdoch quotes: We can only learn to love by loving. We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch quotes: The most interesting things are always happening behind one. The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
Iris Murdoch quotes: There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race. There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications. Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch quotes: To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate. To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do. Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
Iris Murdoch quotes: there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart
Iris Murdoch quotes: 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. 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.
Iris Murdoch quotes: A death is the most terrible of facts. A death is the most terrible of facts.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.
Iris Murdoch quotes: In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of. Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word. Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Only lies and evil come from letting people off. Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch quotes: (I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!') (I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')
Iris Murdoch quotes: The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Every artist is an unhappy lover. Every artist is an unhappy lover.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
Iris Murdoch quotes: He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was. He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.
Iris Murdoch quotes: But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch quotes: There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch quotes: We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own. Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
Iris Murdoch quotes: There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations. There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch quotes: He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.
Iris Murdoch quotes: A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance. A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch quotes: time. Some of my friends think that Finn is cracked, but time. Some of my friends think that Finn is cracked, but
Iris Murdoch quotes: Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch quotes: They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind. They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
Iris Murdoch quotes: There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off. There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable. Until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all. Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.
Iris Murdoch quotes: The very madness of the scheme protects it. The very madness of the scheme protects it.
Iris Murdoch quotes: All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things. Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time. Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'. Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
Iris Murdoch quotes: In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch quotes: let us not waste love, it is rare enough let us not waste love, it is rare enough
Iris Murdoch quotes: Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together. Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.
Iris Murdoch quotes: We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere. Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch quotes: The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She
Iris Murdoch quotes: But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it. But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
Iris Murdoch quotes: How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch quotes: We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch quotes: What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them. What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves. Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch quotes: The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation. The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch quotes: I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love. I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.
Iris Murdoch quotes: People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch quotes: My heart was beating like an army on the march. My heart was beating like an army on the march.
Iris Murdoch quotes: What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time. Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.
Iris Murdoch quotes: One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
Iris Murdoch quotes: And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze. And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story. Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Iris Murdoch quotes: The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
Iris Murdoch quotes: We may love our chains and our stripes too. We may love our chains and our stripes too.
Iris Murdoch quotes: One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats. One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ...
Iris Murdoch quotes: The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man. The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.
Iris Murdoch quotes: There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch quotes: All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch quotes: 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. 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.
Iris Murdoch quotes: Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines. Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch quotes: youth is a marvelous garment youth is a marvelous garment

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