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Real worship involves waiting.

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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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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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