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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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 chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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.
Iris Murdoch
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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.
Iris Murdoch
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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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.
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.
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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
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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