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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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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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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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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 is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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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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Most real relationships are involuntary.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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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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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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