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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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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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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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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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 sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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