Deprived Quote by Iris Murdoch

“How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.”

Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

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“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

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emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the…

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I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon…

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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and…

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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…

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being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go…

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

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