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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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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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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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