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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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Philosopher
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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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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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