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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
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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