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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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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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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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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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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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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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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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