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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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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Darkness
Look
Looks
Sometimes
Work
Always
Love

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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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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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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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