Source: The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Iris Murdoch Quotes
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
“Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
“How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“You can't kiss me and vanish.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It's all someone else's secret.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He felt removed from reality.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“She shivered in the sunlight as if it were the ray of a malignant star.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Do anything you like . . . only don't say the word 'never'. I should die of that word.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Perhaps his demons were quite other.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“They haven't been standing still in the past.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“The past is gone, it doesn't exist any more.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“A woman in love is a great spiritual force.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“His eyes closed now, and for a long time they sat quietly thus. Such was their lovemaking.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Is it true that the first time of falling in love is the worst?" "No.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“You're always wanting to be forgiven. What do you want to be forgiven for?”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Sea, The Sea
Source: The Sea, The Sea