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Iris Murdoch Quotes

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base Picture Quote #1

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream Picture Quote #1

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries Picture Quote #1

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe Picture Quote #1

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality Picture Quote #1

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is Picture Quote #1

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck Picture Quote #1

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality Picture Quote #1

Whit Meynell was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths Picture Quote #1

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair Picture Quote #1

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The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement Picture Quote #1

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right Picture Quote #1

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child Picture Quote #1

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God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same Picture Quote #1

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return Picture Quote #1

Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease Picture Quote #1

You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue Picture Quote #1

In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide Picture Quote #1

Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision Picture Quote #1

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream (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 (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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Whit Meynell was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths (Iris Murdoch Quotes) The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair (Iris Murdoch Quotes) The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement (Iris Murdoch Quotes) All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed (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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right (Iris Murdoch Quotes) One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child (Iris Murdoch Quotes) God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease (Iris Murdoch Quotes) You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue (Iris Murdoch Quotes) In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision (Iris Murdoch Quotes)

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