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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.
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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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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 cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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 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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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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