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Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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