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Iris Murdoch Quote: “But I can’t do anything for him and he can’t do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.”

351. “But I can’t do anything for him and he can’t do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to ‘weirdies’ of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.”

352. “A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to ‘weirdies’ of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

353. “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

Iris Murdoch Quote: “His heart ached in such a familiar way, and the very familiarity of it pained him.”

354. “His heart ached in such a familiar way, and the very familiarity of it pained him.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “How can we not be dooms to each other?”

355. “How can we not be dooms to each other?”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He felt sad, sad.”

356. “He felt sad, sad.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I just hope – if he does come – it won’t be some sort of horror show.”

357. “I just hope – if he does come – it won’t be some sort of horror show.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Living with someone who hates you is – it drives you mad –.”

358. “Living with someone who hates you is – it drives you mad –.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “An experience is richest not talked of.”

359. “An experience is richest not talked of.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.”

360. “Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I wonder if it’s harder to be good in this age?”

361. “I wonder if it’s harder to be good in this age?”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.”

362. “It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Desperate for help, living his life now as a hideous dream, he had told nobody.”

363. “Desperate for help, living his life now as a hideous dream, he had told nobody.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “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.”

364. “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

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.”

365. “Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Every artist is an unhappy lover.”

366. “Every artist is an unhappy lover.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I said, “Your brother is in bed with my wife.” I added, “I just took them up some wine in bed.”

367. “I said, “Your brother is in bed with my wife.” I added, “I just took them up some wine in bed.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...”

368. “This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.”

369. “I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.”

370. “Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “You talk of freedom – I’ve never had it! I’ve been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!”

371. “You talk of freedom – I’ve never had it! I’ve been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I adore your jealousy, especially when it’s so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that.”

372. “I adore your jealousy, especially when it’s so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “If I see her she may kill hope.”

373. “If I see her she may kill hope.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.”

374. “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

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’ve never had any luck, Brad. I don’t even hope for any any more.”

375. “I’ve never had any luck, Brad. I don’t even hope for any any more.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.”

376. “Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.”

377. “There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.”

378. “I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “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.”

379. “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

Iris Murdoch Quote: “You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.”

380. “You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.”

381. “Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The most interesting things are always happening behind one.”

382. “The most interesting things are always happening behind one.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “This figure, which I had so vaguely, idly, noticed before was now utterly changed in my eyes. The whole world was its background. And between me and it there hovered, perhaps for the last time, the vision of a slim long-legged girl with gleaming thighs. I ran.”

383. “This figure, which I had so vaguely, idly, noticed before was now utterly changed in my eyes. The whole world was its background. And between me and it there hovered, perhaps for the last time, the vision of a slim long-legged girl with gleaming thighs. I ran.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “And what is love anyway? Love’s all over the mountain where the beautiful go to die no doubt, but I cannot attach much meaning to your idea of such a long-lasting love for someone you lost sight of so long ago. Perhaps it’s something you’ve invented now.”

384. “And what is love anyway? Love’s all over the mountain where the beautiful go to die no doubt, but I cannot attach much meaning to your idea of such a long-lasting love for someone you lost sight of so long ago. Perhaps it’s something you’ve invented now.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn’t disapprove of people. It cuts you off.”

385. “Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn’t disapprove of people. It cuts you off.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I accused Hartley of being a ‘fantasist’, or perhaps that was Titus’s word, but what a ‘fantasist’ I have been myself. I was the dreamer, I the magician. How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality. Hartley had been right when she said of our love that it was not part of the real world. It had no place.”

386. “I accused Hartley of being a ‘fantasist’, or perhaps that was Titus’s word, but what a ‘fantasist’ I have been myself. I was the dreamer, I the magician. How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality. Hartley had been right when she said of our love that it was not part of the real world. It had no place.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze.”

387. “And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.”

388. “Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one’s first love?”

389. “Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one’s first love?”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Of course we have an ‘unconscious mind’ and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a ‘scientific’ one.”

390. “Of course we have an ‘unconscious mind’ and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a ‘scientific’ one.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’m not interested. I never liked him. He’s some sort scoundrel.”

391. “I’m not interested. I never liked him. He’s some sort scoundrel.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.”

392. “It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes.”

393. “All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.”

394. “And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.”

395. “He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “You’re doing your thing, why can’t I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it.”

396. “You’re doing your thing, why can’t I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering.”

397. “Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “It’s much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.”

398. “It’s much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.”

399. “Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “How absolute the knave is!”

400. “How absolute the knave is!”

— Iris Murdoch

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