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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

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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.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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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.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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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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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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