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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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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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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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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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A death is the most terrible of facts.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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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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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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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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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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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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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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