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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
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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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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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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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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