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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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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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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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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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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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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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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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