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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
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
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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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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Real worship involves waiting.
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It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of 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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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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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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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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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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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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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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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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