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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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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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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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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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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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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 sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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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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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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