“To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.” — Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
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“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.” — Iris Murdoch, The Bell
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“Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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“The exercise of power is a dangerous delight.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.” — Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
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“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.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea Tours
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“In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.” — Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics
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“We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.” — Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
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“Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.” — Iris Murdoch, The Bell
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“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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