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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.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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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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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's 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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