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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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Jean Iris Murdoch
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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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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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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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