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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, 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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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