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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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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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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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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.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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