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Iris Murdoch -
The Nice and the Good (1968)
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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
Iris Murdoch
Born:
July 15, 1919
Died:
February 8, 1999
(aged 79)
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