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youth is a marvelous garment

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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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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