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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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
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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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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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 when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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