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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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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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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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