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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
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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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.
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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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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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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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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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