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Iris Murdoch Quotes

«We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.»
Author: Iris Murdoch (Novelist, Philosopher) | Keywords: doomed
«Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.»
«Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.»
«Anything that consoles is fake.»
«All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.»
«I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.»
«Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.»
Author: Iris Murdoch (Novelist, Philosopher) | About: Art | Keywords: human soul
«The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.»
«Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.»
«He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.»

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