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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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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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