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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
Brown
Generic
Like
Moral
Spectrum
Truth
Truth Is
Well
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
~ Iris Murdoch
Base
Calls
Entirely
Even
Frivolous
Love
Love Is
No Love
Without
Worth
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
~ Iris Murdoch
Anywhere
Get
Marriage
Public
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
~ Iris Murdoch
Come
Evil
Letting
Lies
Off
Only
People
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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
About
Flowers
Joy
Mad
Must
People
Planet
Such Things
Things
Think
Time
Us
Whole
Without
Would
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
~ Iris Murdoch
Better
Confused
Indifference
Misguided
Moral
Passion
Perhaps
Than
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
Continuous
Distant
Hear
Other
Ours
People
Perhaps
Pick
Planets
Scream
Some
Up
Wavelength
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
~ Iris Murdoch
Conceited
Digest
Eating
Empty
Ignorant
Men
Philosophy
Think
Thinking
Who
Without
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
~ Iris Murdoch
Absolute
Another
Body
Human
Human Body
Indifference
Life
Major
Mysteries
Particular
Yearning
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
~ Iris Murdoch
Cry
Down
Equality
Everyone
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
Abolish
Catastrophe
Comfort
Equivalent
General
Notion
Particular
Since
Survive
Terms
Will
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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.
~ Iris Murdoch
Change
Falling
Falling In Love
Go
Hardly
Love
Marriage
Must
Often
Other
People
Priesthood
Realizing
Recognized
Some
Start
Unlike
Which
Without
Years
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
Comfort
Relationship
Substitute
Supplied
Utterly
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We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch
Learn
Love
Loving
Only
To Love
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Find
Great
Illusion
Life
Live
Reality
Task
World
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
~ Iris Murdoch
Better
Doomed
Future
How
Prepared
Present
See
Shall
Terrible
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
~ Iris Murdoch
Amazed
Commit
Getting
Getting Married
Like
Luck
Married
Never
Oneself
Should
Until
Writing
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