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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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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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