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One Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is…
- One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
- I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
- The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in…
- There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the…
- ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of…
- ... where does one person end and another person begin?
- We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
- In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always…
- Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
- The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
- Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
- One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
- Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of…
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated…
- To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that…
- 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.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle