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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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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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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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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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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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