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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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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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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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