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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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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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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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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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