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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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