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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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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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