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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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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 bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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