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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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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.... Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Iris Murdoch
Born:
July 15, 1919
Died:
February 8, 1999
(aged 79)
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