This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart... Autore: Iris Murdoch Copy Quote More from Iris Murdoch “Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind…” “There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great …” “I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.” “I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.”