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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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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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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch
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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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Iris Murdoch
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
Iris Murdoch
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch
