“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”
Iris Murdoch livre A Severed Head
Source: A Severed Head
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Iris Murdoch: Citations en anglais
Iris Murdoch livre Nuns and Soldiers
Source: Nuns and Soldiers
Iris Murdoch livre The Sea, the Sea
Source: The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch livre The Sea, the Sea
Source: The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch livre The Sea, the Sea
Source: The Sea, the Sea
“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Bell
The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Message to the Planet
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
“Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Good Apprentice
The Good Apprentice (1985), p. 247.
Iris Murdoch livre The Philosopher's Pupil
The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) p. 165.
“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Black Prince
The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 181.
“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Nice and the Good
The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138
“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
Iris Murdoch livre A Severed Head
A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 148 (the concluding sentence of the book)
“Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”
Iris Murdoch livre A Severed Head
A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 61.
Iris Murdoch livre The Message to the Planet
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 532.
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
"Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art", Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986).
Iris Murdoch livre The Bell
The Bell (1958) p. 91
“I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.”
Not Iris Murdoch, but the actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. See George Mair Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story (1997) p. 81.
Misattributed
“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Message to the Planet
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 322.
“The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.”
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 137
“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 127
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).
“The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.”
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 8, p. 119
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
Iris Murdoch livre The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.
Iris Murdoch livre The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), p. 66.
