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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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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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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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 sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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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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