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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
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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.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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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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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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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 live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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