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Iris Murdoch - From the Art category:
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Artists category:
Every artist is an unhappy lover. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Criticism category:
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Destiny category:
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Eroticism category:
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Fantasy category:
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Gender category:
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Love category:
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Morality category:
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Philosophy category:
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Procrastination category:
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Religion category:
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Silence category:
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Struggle category:
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Subject category:
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Temperament category:
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Truth category:
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Worth category:
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. (Iris Murdoch)
Iris Murdoch - From the Writing category:
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. (Iris Murdoch)
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