Iris Murdoch Short Quotes

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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

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Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

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No one should be a prisoner of other people's thoughts.

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The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization.

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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.

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I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

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Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love.

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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

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Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

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Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

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Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

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We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

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Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

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Mockery did not come easily to Dora, and had to be thought out beforehand.

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