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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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