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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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