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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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