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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.
Iris Murdoch
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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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... 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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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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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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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