5 Quotes by Iris Murdoch about understanding
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He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.
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And even in those seconds, and even as I wondered with anguish whether I would ever see her again, I lived with her in some angelic timeless world of quiet communication and absolute understanding.
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I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.
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And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over.
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Understanding was out of the question; and indeed how passionately, just then, I did not want to be understood.
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