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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
Iris Murdoch
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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