All Iris Murdoch Quotes
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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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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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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