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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
Iris Murdoch
... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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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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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
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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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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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.
Iris Murdoch
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch