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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 the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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?
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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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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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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