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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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