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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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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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