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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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