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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
Author
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Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Temperament
Goodness
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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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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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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