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Iris Murdoch Inspirational Quotes (109)

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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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