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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.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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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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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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