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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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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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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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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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