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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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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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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The very madness of the scheme protects it.
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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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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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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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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