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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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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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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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
Iris Murdoch
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Iris Murdoch
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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