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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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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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