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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
Iris Murdoch
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Iris Murdoch
The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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
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
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Iris Murdoch
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
Iris Murdoch
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
Real worship involves waiting.
Iris Murdoch
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
