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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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 letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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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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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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