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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind Picture Quote #1

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one’s interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you Picture Quote #1

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young Picture Quote #1

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear Picture Quote #1

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all Picture Quote #1

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world Picture Quote #1

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One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own Picture Quote #1

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought Picture Quote #1

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race Picture Quote #1

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect Picture Quote #1

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us Picture Quote #1

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge Picture Quote #1

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Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here Picture Quote #1

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central Picture Quote #1

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don’t know much about goodness Picture Quote #1

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth Picture Quote #1

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait Picture Quote #1

It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown Picture Quote #1

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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you’re lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there’s anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter Picture Quote #1

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one’s got to stop muddling Picture Quote #1

Love can’t always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness Picture Quote #1

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good Picture Quote #1

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves Picture Quote #1

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders Picture Quote #1

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Any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one’s interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you (Iris Murdoch Quotes) The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young (Iris Murdoch Quotes) True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear (Iris Murdoch Quotes) In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world (Iris Murdoch Quotes) One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought (Iris Murdoch Quotes) There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central (Iris Murdoch Quotes) It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don’t know much about goodness (Iris Murdoch Quotes) All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth (Iris Murdoch Quotes) The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait (Iris Murdoch Quotes) It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown (Iris Murdoch Quotes) ... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you’re lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there’s anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one’s got to stop muddling (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Love can’t always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness (Iris Murdoch Quotes) The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good (Iris Murdoch Quotes) Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves (Iris Murdoch Quotes) We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing? (Iris Murdoch Quotes) 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 (Iris Murdoch Quotes) I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders (Iris Murdoch Quotes)

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