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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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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 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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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