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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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Socrates
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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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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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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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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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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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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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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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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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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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