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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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More quotes by Iris Murdoch
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
Iris Murdoch
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Iris Murdoch
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Iris Murdoch
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
Iris Murdoch
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Iris Murdoch
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch
A death is the most terrible of facts.
Iris Murdoch
