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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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Philosopher
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Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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 most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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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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