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Iris Murdoch Inspirational Quotes (109)

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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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