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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Iris Murdoch
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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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
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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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch
