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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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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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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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