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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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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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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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