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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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