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Iris Murdoch

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Difficult Love Oneself Reality
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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Education Fundamental Human Literature Understand
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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Alone Enough Marriage Myself Past Reality Thinking Wrong
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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Born Desire Escape Oneself Violence
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Divine Human Silence Touch Truth
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
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Act Emotion Existence Personality World
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Change Eyes Forever Hands World
I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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Alive Happiness Human Time
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Art Happiness Love Poet Story

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