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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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