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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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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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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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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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