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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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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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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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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