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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Iris Murdoch
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
Iris Murdoch
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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch
Real worship involves waiting.
Iris Murdoch
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Iris Murdoch
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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
Iris Murdoch
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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.
Iris Murdoch
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
Iris Murdoch
evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
The very madness of the scheme protects it.
Iris Murdoch