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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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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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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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