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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Greatest
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Invigorates

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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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