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Real worship involves waiting.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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 must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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