QUOTES by Iris Murdoch
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"Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision."
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"Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child."
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"The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains."
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"To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate."
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"There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off."
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"He dreamt...he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was."
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"How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners."
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"You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue."
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"Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable."
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"But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."
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"You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark."
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"When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions."
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"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out."
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"Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off."
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"How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters."
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"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."
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"But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer."
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"Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that's what I am experiencing right now."
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"It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way."
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"I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this."
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship..."
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"Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word."
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"White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards."
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"I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge."
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"The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes."
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"Thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you."
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"What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)"
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"That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!"
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"There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present."
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"I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move."
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"Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working."
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"(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')"
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"Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
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