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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Socrates
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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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.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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