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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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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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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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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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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 sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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.
Iris Murdoch
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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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
Iris Murdoch
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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
Iris Murdoch
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch
