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Us Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul…
- Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- 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…
- How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the…
- Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we…
- we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
- 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…
- 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…
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