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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Love
Cloudy
Hatred
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Hate

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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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