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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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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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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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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 most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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