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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.
Iris Murdoch
He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Iris Murdoch
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Iris Murdoch
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
Iris Murdoch
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
Iris Murdoch
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Iris Murdoch
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Iris Murdoch
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch
