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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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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
Muddling
Disorder
Stop
Thing

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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