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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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