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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.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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