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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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 re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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