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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Professor
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Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Love

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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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