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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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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