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I. Frost's Selected Quotations
Everything at Amazon by and about: Iris MurdochWe can only learn love by lovingHuman affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. A great novelist is essentially tolerant, that is, displays a real apprehension of persons other than the author as having a right to exist and to have a separate mode of being which is important and interesting to themselves I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck Fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved Only lies and evil come from letting people off. Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods There is only one freedom of any importance, freedom of the mind No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base The cry of equality pulls everyone down People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. ...if a moral philosophy does not give a satisfactory or sufficiently rich account of what we unphilosophically know to be goodness, then away with it We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats 3
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